Sort of help our people whove been forced to flee in the last 3 months hundreds of thousands who have been forced to flee their homes because of the violence what sort of assistance are they getting and where actually are they had it right now. Well with more than 400000 who have fled mostly to the done at area close to the Turkish Border weve been providing them with radio emails and hands and other relief items without putting new water tanks and the trimmings and you know these camps are already very crowded there now much more crowded but many of the people also waves to the other towns and it is those same towns that are now also coming under attack so you know its no wonder whenever there is a mess right now that we see women and children and elderly people being pulled out from under the rubble because there are many civilians in these areas this is the most congested governorates in all of syria and it is just so shocking that the bombing continues in such a crowded residential
leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita
james landale, reports from kyiv. munitions explode. this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, as the bbc has reported, ukrainian forces have held off a ferocious onslaught. but now russian commanders are growing increasingly confident, including the leader of the mercenaries known as the wagner group, which have been at the heart of the assault. translation: we have - almost surrounded bakhmut. there s only one road that remains in and out of the city, the pincers are closing. before, we were fighting against the professional ukrainian army, but now we fight against old men and boys. ukrainian forces are still defending the city street by street and reports suggest reinforcements are being sent in. but these russian troops, say the ukrainian army, is destroying bridges like these, potentially to prepare for what western analysts call a controlled fighting withdrawal from parts
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