showing no sign of ending the un sounds a warning on globalfood prices. the families in britain ukrainians who want to come to the uk will hear about them despite the scheme being criticised for being too complicated. as we ve heard, the southern port city of mariupol is a key strategic target for the russian military. around 300,000 people are believed to be trapped there with supplies running out and aid blocked. residents have endured weeks of russian bombardment with no power or running water. wyre davies sent this report from zaporizha, where some people from mariupol have managed to flee. after 170 miles, mined roads and 15
volodymyr, when a shell landed near their apartment, his father instinctively threw himself over the baby. dad alexei was hit by shrapnel and glass. his son, born only a month before the war, bears no injuries. after that we lived in the shelter cooking with wood and just trying to survive, says alexei. ukrainians have their differences, but the war has brought people together in adversity. volunteers provide anything those escaping mariupol need for their onward journeys, knowing full well there town could be next. wyre davies, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. james cowan is a former british soldier who now heads the halo trust which has four hundred staff working in ukraine. thank you forjoining us. i know some of those staff are in mariupol. i wonder if you are able to hear from them at all. we i wonder if you are able to hear
and i m happy that i will live here and i m now in ukraine. this van filled with 25 people also made it through today. all occupants of the same bunker in mariupol escaping together from ages 2 75. overcome with emotion, babushka, or grandmother, anna, says it s all too much for me at my age. some of those arriving today gave us videos, a snapshot of the nightmare in which they have been living and the perils of theirjourney out. around 300,000 people are still thought to be trapped inside the besieged city, much of which has been destroyed by the russian bombardment. it was a bombardment that almost took the life of two month old volodymyr, when a shell landed near their apartment, his father instinctively threw himself over the baby. dad alexei was hit
mariupol and same with tears in their eyes, god, variable looks like when the nazi germans ground residential buildings bombed. without any mercy. the russian army behaves exactly the same way today. the russian leaders behave in the same way as hitler, the german ss and the german pilots of the fascist army in world war ii. mariupol is a key strategic target for russia. it s also a key export hub, so capturing it would strangle ukraine economically. this is another key target for russia odesa, also a port city. it controls access to the black sea. here s one military expert. well, it s significant because of its centrality to ukraine s economy,
water, went to the neighbour s well, and the neighbour was killed trying to draw water from that well along with his whole family. we have young one young member of staff who has reached as in the vivre. she has been with her brother desperately trying to find news of her parents. and discovered that there was to be a convoy leaving mariupol. just by sheer coincidence, her parents saw a man across the street with a telephone, to see if you would make a call for them. she was able to move to this location and join this convoy and now her parents have escaped mariupol. her grandparents are still in mariupol. she has managed to save