an official from the lviv city council said. there have been three powerful explosions near lviv. ..everyone should keep calm and stay indoors, igor zinkevych said in a post on facebook. you can see there with me the heavy black smoke rising, that is from the north east side of the city. the cause of these three explosions has not been immediately verified but obviously we will bring you news on that as soon as we get it. president biden s been talking in the last hour. let s hear some of what he had to say: the single most important criteria in this time of changing worlds. so much is changing, notjust here but in other parts of the world, is that nato stay absolutely, completely, thoroughly united. that there be no separation
we as individuals tried to help. these new supply networks are typical of lviv at the moment. the light touch of a war that is largely out of sight. life here in lviv can seem pretty normal if you ignore the sandbags and the boarded up windows. the restaurants are open, at least until the air raid sirens begin, and the streets are crowded with people enjoying the spring weather. more crowded than usual actually because of the 200,000 people who have come here to avoid the fighting in the east. the war comes back to lviv in coffins. this is igor, killed during the first few days of the conflict in donetsk. this is his mother and this his twin brother, grasping a war that is not seen but felt. lucy williamson, bbc news, lviv. i m joined now by yuliia rudenko who fled her home town of chernihiv