30 buses to rescue civilians from Sumy, as refugees top three million
-
For the second day running, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv awoke to residential buildings on fire. It feels like this could become the new normal. There is a clear sense that the conflict is coming ever closer to city.
A 15-story block in the north-west of the city was still smouldering when we arrived, with fires flickering in parts of the blackened and charred building.
There was cinders and ash dropping, as neighbours stood in silent clusters looking on. Some stopped by walking their dogs.
The emergency services told us the building had been hit by a Russian shell, and two people had been killed.
There area was full of high-rise apartment blocks. We saw no sign of any possible military targets.
An elderly woman called Svetlana, who lives nearby, told us she was Russian herself and had never faced any problems with her neighbours.
She said the only fascists were the Russians who were bombing civilians.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been speaking to European leaders in London and has expressed his frustration with Nato over their refusal to implement a no-fly zone. (More on that and why the West won't act here).
In a video call to UK PM Boris Johnson and other countries in the Joint Expedition Force, Zelensky said Nato was "the strongest alliance in the world" - but "some of the members of this alliance are hypnotised by Russian aggression".
"We hear a lot of conversations about the third world war, that allegedly it could start if Nato will close the Ukrainian sky for Russian missiles and planes and therefore the humanitarian no-fly zone was not yet established," he said.
"That allows the Russian army to bombard peaceful cities and blow up housing blocks and hospitals and schools. Four multi-storey buildings in Kyiv in the early morning were bombarded, dozens of dead."
This is one of the residential buildings hit by strikes overnight in Kyiv.
There are a number of fire trucks, but it will take time to put out the fires because almost every single flat was damaged.
It's quite close to the area where the fighting is going on. There are reports that Russian forces are about 10 to 15km away.
There has been a lot of speculation about whether the Russian troops would be willing to bomb Kyiv. This place, the capital of Ukraine, has symbolic value for them, as well, with all those orthodox churches and historical sites.
However, sights like this suggest that Russian troops are ready to use brutal force in order to take Kyiv.
-
There are a lot of scams and fakes on the Internet, but the essay writing service will not only correctly write any written work for you, but they will also do it competently and will be written with meaning