prince harry speaks to the bbc about the invictus games, and how ukrainian soldiers are taking part against the odds. so they remove their uniforms, put the team strips on, for a couple of days, tried to decompress and then they re straight into it and they ve got to go back. ukraine says that russian forces have now embarked on the large scale offensive in the east of the country that has been aniticpated for the past week. indeed, theyappear to have expanded their bombardments, with sites right across the country being hit over the past 2a hours. in a televised address, president volodymyr zelensky laid out the scale of the attack and the challenge for his forces in the donbas. translation: we can assess now that russian military has| begun the battle for donbas, for which they have been preparing a long time. a very large part of the russian army is now concentrated for this offensive. no matter how many of the russian troops are there, we will be fighting. we will defend
soldiers are taking part against the odds. so they remove their uniforms, put the team strips on, jumped on the coach, came over here slept for a couple of days, tried to decompress and then they re straight into it and they ve got to go back. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine says that russian forces have now embarked on the large scale offensive in the east of the country that has been aniticpated for the past week. indeed, theyappear to have expanded their bombardments, with sites right across the country being hit over the past 2a hours. in a televised address, president volodymyr zelensky laid out the scale of the attack and the challenge for his forces in the donbas. translation: we can assess now that russian military has| begun the battle for donbas, for which they have been preparing a long time. a very large part of the russian army is now concentrated for this offensive. no matter how many of the russian troops are there, we wil
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six from the ukrainian capital kyiv, as russia today expanded its bombardment of cities, hitting sites right across the country. it comes as the united nations now estimates nearly five million people have fled ukraine, because of the war. in the western city of lviv, which has been relatively unscathed throughout the conflict, missile strikes have killed at least seven people. our correspondent danjohnson has been to the site of one of the attacks and sent us this report. this is the moment the conflict came closer to lviv. missile strikes out of the clear skies of a bright morning, hitting targets right in the city. and this is one of those targets, an industrial unit not far from the city centre. it took firefighters some time to bring the blaze under control. and it was not long before the families of those caught up in this came to see it for themselves. anatoli barank and maria heard the news, try to call, but got no answer fr
but we re doing everything possible. we are ready to repel the russian occupiers and prevent the capture of our cities. and prince harry speaks to the bbc about the invictus games, and what ukraine s presence there means. welcome to the programme. we re going to start by looking at russia s assault on ukraine from the air. they ve hit cities right across the country. including lviv in the west which had been one of the safer parts of ukraine. at least seven people were killed in the strike there and reports a child was among them. this is lviv s mayor. translation: what we see today in ukraine is genocide, which is purposefully committed by the aggressor who kills civilians. seven civilians had plans for life. today, their lives have ended. this is the aftermath of that missile strike. it reportedly hit military facilities and a car tyre service point in lviv. let s hear from our correspondent there, danjohnson who witnessed it. this is where one of the missiles hit t