there was a threat to his life. to see him on the ground, at a metro station, where people have been sheltering from this invasion, seeing him answering questions from assembled journalists did feel like he had had no. it felt like kyiv had moved on step. he talked about, as you re hearing there, wanting to have a meeting with vladimir putin. hhe also revealed that the us secretary of state, antony blinken, and the defence secretary, lloyd austin, will visit kyiv tomorrow. unusual to reveal that before the event, but it would be at the latest in a string of high profile visits to this capital. it just shows you how things are slowly starting to come to life. i just want to show you, while we are talking, this building behind me, so familiar now. these beautiful golden domes of saint michael s monastery have
at least six people have died, 18 are wounded, eight are in hospital. one of those killed was a three month old baby girl. odesa sits on ukraine s southern coast. while much of the fighting has focused in the east of the country, odesa had started to reduce its curfew and remove some of its street defences. this has come as a shock to many people here in odesa. the city has been relatively quiet over the course of the last few weeks and many people hoped that could mean the start of some form of normal life. this shows that things can change in a moment. tomorrow is orthodox easter sunday, but few feel they will find peace while the threat from russia hangs over the country. caroline davies, bbc news, odesa. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy has been giving a news conference, from a subway station in kyiv. he revealed that the us s top diplomat antony blinken and defence secretary lloyd austin are due to visit kyiv on sunday. in a wide ranging news conference, president zelenskyy
launched in the east of the country. at a nato dinner last night, the uk foreign secretary liz truss called for the alliance to toughen its response saying the time for engagement with russia was over. the head of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, will visit kyiv later for talks with ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky. they are expected to dicuss the support provided by the eu to the country in the face of the russian invasion, both in the country and for the millions of refugees now in the eu. the visit takes place in the run up to the pledging conference #standupforukraine organised in warsaw on saturday. the united states says it has trained a small number of ukrainian soldiers in the use of an anti tank drone called switchblade. the single use weapon flies into its target and detonates on impact. the pentagon plans to send 100 drones to ukraine to bolster the fight against russian forces.
strike this morning, according to emergency services. 35 were rescued. the city s mayor vitali klitschko said this morning klitschko said this morning a 35 hour curfew would be imposed later today. translation: according to the decision of translation: according to the decision of military translation: according to the decision of military command, l translation: according to the | decision of military command, at translation: according to the - decision of military command, at 8pm a curfew is established in kyiv. movement through the city is prohibited without special passes. this was the southern port city of kherson on sunday. protests against the invasion. according to the kremlin russian troops now fully control the region. translation: the armed forces of the russian federation - took entire control of the territory of kherson. the troops of the self declared
residents, he told me about allegations that russian soldiers were shooting civilians for fun, civilians who were not offering food or giving up food to soldiers. is not something you have witnessed? t not something you have witnessed? i can confirm similar cases in kyiv region, in the suburbs of kyiv a number of volunteers work delivering food for people who were sheltering and were killed by russians. 0ne food for people who were sheltering and were killed by russians. one of them, the mayor of a small city next to kyiv, was killed by russians when he was distributing food to civilians, so we are talking about thousands of war crimes which are happening every day and every are in ukraine and these war crimes are committed not only by vladimir putin in sparring everything but bite russian military commanders and bite russian military commanders and bite