but kyiv is big and it s sprawling, and the defenders have many advantages, which they re using. prayers aren t all they have. problems for the russians include rivers notjust the mighty dnipro running through kyiv, but its tributaries and large areas of marshland that can hold up and bog down armies. at their headquarters, the generals running kyiv s defence invited us to their war room, and they sounded confident, like their president. they re tracking the two main russian thrusts from the east and from the north west which they say are being attacked and have barely moved. we ve heard a lot about this long russian convoy that was to the north west of the city. what s happened to that? he answered, that was a week ago. 0ur military hit it,
a trolley bus conductor was killed. ukrainian military success has surprised their friends and their enemies, but the russians have not turned anything like their full force on this capital city yet. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. as you can imagine, the rush to get out of ukraine for those caught up in the fighting has been intense. an evacuation convoy has managed to leave the key port of mariupol in the south of the country, which has been subjected to heavy russian bombardment. 160 cars were able to leave the city. it s been cut off from food, water and heating systems for more than two weeks. the city s authorities say that civilian deaths have risen above 2,100 and mass graves have had to be dug. and now, it s being reported that a pregnant woman, who was pictured fleeing after an attack on the city s maternity hospital last week, has died, along with her baby.
russia was committing a crime in ukraine, she said, and vladimir putin was responsible. this is russian tv normally. 0n message, pro putin. tv channels here don t call what russia s doing in ukraine a war. they say it s a special military operation. but critical voices have been creeping in. on a popular talk show, this film director says he can t imagine russia taking cities like kyiv and warns that close allies like china and india might distance themselves from russia. but this is more than just criticism. it s a direct challenge one woman taking on the kremlin.
want to come into the city and concrete or encircle it? translation: concrete or encircle it? tuna/mom- concrete or encircle it? translation: , , ., concrete or encircle it? translation: , ., ., translation: maybe they want to encircle the city translation: maybe they want to encircle the city but translation: maybe they want to encircle the city but i translation: maybe they want to encircle the city but i do translation: maybe they want to encircle the city but i do not - encircle the city but i do not think they have enough soldiers and they understand that in kyiv, around 20,000 people have received weapons and the city is fortified. attacking will cost them a very large losses. but the russians have not turned anything like that full force on the capital city yet. that full force. a convoy is finally able to live the embattled city of mariupol which has been underferocious russian abutment but it is a drop in the ocean a city of nearly half a million people. for those w
have been creeping in. on a popular talk show, this film director says he can t imagine russia taking cities like kyiv and warns that close allies like china and india might distance themselves from russia. but this is more than just criticism. it s a direct challenge one woman taking on the kremlin. quite extraordinary. i have never seen anything like that here. what it shows is that despite the kremlin s almost total control of the media, it is still struggling to persuade some people within the system but what the kremlin is doing is right. as for marina, she has reportedly been detained by police, and the tv channel, channel 0ne police, and the tv channel, channel one russia, has launched an internal investigation. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg in yuroslav, russia. meanwhile, the war of words between the us and china over russia s invasion of