the ride with a full throttle invasion?

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. since russia's invasion of ukraine, more than two million refugees have fled the country. it's the largest movement of people in europe since the second world war. can you believe this? can you? hundreds of thousands of them have flowed through lviv station.

the story of this station is the story of ukraine's people — and the war that's consuming them. this is platform 5. jenia is saying goodbye to his family — his wife, oksana, 12—year—old son ilya and nine—year—old anna.

they are on their way to poland, but men of fighting age are not allowed to board the train. platform 5 is the part of this station which thousands are desperate to reach. but it's a place of pain and sorrow.

this is the life they left behind in kharkiv. phone rings. it's notjust ukrainians who are trying to escape. doha is a student who wants

to get home to morocco. we've been waiting for two days now. we are coming from kharkiv and, in kharkiv, there are shelters. we left everything. whimpering. she took this footage as the shelling came closer, just a few days earlier. she's travelled for hours on packed trains to get to lviv. so i'm just looking here at the people. people are crowded. people don't even ask about us. they were just walking on us. we were nigerians, moroccans, arabs, egyptians. from tunis, from everywhere.

it's like the whole world is on that train with you. yes, i, i cried so much and ijust want to go home. really. i'm not safe any more here, i left everything, i left my studies. just pray with us, guys. but in the invasion�*s first days, not everyone gets ona train. platforms are often packed. there are thousands of people along this platform. can any train possibly take the number of people who are here? it seems very, very doubtful. there's an air of desperation. it's quiet desperation, but no less real for that.

don't push! yelling. let me go! rina and her family are trying to get to platform 5. she's so worried about being separated from her children, myrion and eliazaria, that she's writing her phone number on their arms.

i had work in ukraine. i had a life in ukraine and it's my country and i want to come back, and come back quickly. i want to come back tomorrow but it's not safe now for my kids. just two weeks ago, this was rina. sings t0 electronic music.

a well—known ukrainian pop star, now her life has been upended. i have big concerts and some people of ukraine very liked my music and it's very good, so i start in this way and now, it's finished. sings in ukrainian. bravo! claps. lviv is a city in western ukraine, just a0 miles from the polish border.

since the war began, its station has acted as a giant heart, pumping people in and out. the people who keep that heart beating are the train drivers. boris has been one for more than 25 years.

this is where the drivers rest. some can't return home to their native cities because of the fighting. tonight, boris will be driving back to the capital, kyiv, nowjust 20 miles from the front line.

around 200,000 people are on the move through ukraine by train every day. travel is now free. no—one needs a ticket. tonight, boris�* train is returning to kyiv laden not with passengers, but with supplies for the people left there. he'll be taking a new route as a bridge has been destroyed in the fighting. what does it mean to you, to rescue tens of thousands of your fellow ukrainians

on this train? boris, you are a very modest man, but i think you are very brave. siren wails in the background.

0utside platform 5, thousands of people are waiting for the next train out of ukraine. two weeks ago, denis was an events manager. this is our place and here, we have... today, he oversees 800 volunteers operating in the station. mums with kids, disabled people come out of the train and they are under deep shock because their houses

was bombed. it's a real situation. mums, kids, disabled people, old people. let's come and see what's going on inside. this is the food station. this is the storage. lots of volunteers work here. and the doctors�* office. ah, this is my wife, natasha. natasha! natasha is a volunteer doctor in the station. bbc. 0h, hi there! they have two young children who are looked after by friends while they work here. 24 hours, we stay here. it's very... it's very hard. pain of people, so many child. they haven't eaten for five or six days and they have a problem with their stomach.

ok, let's come downstairs. so, we use volunteers on every exit. we have some kind of a food place, catering food place here. there is a mini clinic and place for disabled. so, all these people are waiting for the train to poland, yeah. we have seven, eight trains per day.

they absolutely don't know what about the future. no plans. they don't know what to do. what about the job? what about the money? lots of them have no money, absolutely. so, everything is for free, of course. the local businesses give us everything we need — food, beds and medicine, everything. denis has just brought 14—year—old uliana and her mother gallina and the family to the mother and baby room. they've travelled for two days from the city of dnipro. i'm with my little brother, with my mother and grandmother.

but my father, he in poland now, so we are going to him. for all these families, the mother and baby room is a refuge from chaos outside. i think it's the most good place that we could be in there, so i'm so happy. i could relax there, so i'm so happy. my mum is so — she is very tired because she has so many problems, because we don't know where we was yesterday or where we will go, so it is hard for she.

in the makeshift hospital, in what used to be a waiting lounge, natasha gets a call for help. someone has collapsed in the queue. days travelling on crowded trains create hellish conditions for the most vulnerable. natasha's family is russian. 0n the day russia invaded ukraine, she sent a text to her sister in moscow, asking why she hadn't been in touch.

the next exchange of messages was the last time the sisters spoke.

it's one small example of the damage this war is doing.

rina made it to platform 5 with her children and her mother. she's now in poland, on her way to germany. doha finally reached morocco. jenia is with friends further east in ukraine. his wife and children are hoping to reach their aunt in london.

and boris is still making the journey to and from kyiv. and on platform 5, the arrivals and departures go on. the relentless separation of families by the war.

hello. more of you should spend the day dry on tuesday. there will be some wet weather around, that's going to be mainly towards parts of western scotland and later, northern ireland. but even as we start the day, one or two isolated showers for eastern parts of england. that's from this weather front just working its way northwards, and a little ridge of high pressure, though, across most of the country before we see this weather front gradually work its way in from the west. and it's that which will bring the wetter weather to western scotland and northern ireland, but keep temperatures above freezing to start the day. a touch of frost is possible just about anywhere, but a bright enough start for many. a few isolated showers through east anglia and the east midlands drifting their way northwards into yorkshire through the day.

much of england and wales varying amounts of sunshine, best of which will be in the morning. some sunny spells east of scotland, northern ireland, isolated shower, but it's western scotland and to the west of northern ireland where it will turn wetter, quite breezy for a time during the morning. that breeze will help to break up the cloud to eastern scotland. temperatures in the north around 7—8 degrees, but in the sunshine further south, a pleasant spring day, up to around 15 or 16 celsius. then as we go into the night and through to wednesday morning, clear conditions develop towards western scotland, northern ireland, as showers push their way eastwards. so, here, we will see a frost to start wednesday, a milder start elsewhere, and that's because there'll be a lot more cloud around to start the day. that's because we've got to the south of us storm celia across parts of spain and portugal, throwing out these weather fronts and potentially a little bit of saharan dust across the southeast during the day. butjust notice across england and wales, whilst there could be a few breaks in the cloud, particularly into the west, cloud amounts often large, outbreaks of rain around and they will be a bit more heavy, persistent, developing through the day, particularly through central and eastern parts of england. by contrast, scotland, northern ireland lose the early showers. sunshine comes out, brighter

afternoon to wales and parts of northwest england, but cooler here, whereas we could still see up to around 15 degrees in the southeast corner. that milder air with it the saharan dust and the rain pushes out into the north sea as we go through the night into thursday. another chilly start on thursday, touch of frost around, much of england and wales will be dry and bright. showers or a greater chance of them in north wales, northern england on thursday and sunshine and shower day for scotland and northern ireland. a bit chilly here, temperatures climbing again further south, and as we go through the rest of the week, well, it does look like with high pressure building, plenty of blue skies and sunshine into the weekend. see you soon.

welcome to bbc news — i'm david eades. our top stories: the battle for ukraine goes on. a russian strike on a block of flats in kyiv kills one person and injures i2. this is the nightmare for the city, more attacks like this, and, of course, they are vulnerable to missile strikes. but kyiv is big and it is sprawling, and the defenders have many advantages, which they are using. scenes of devastation in the southern port city of mariupol — where food, water and heating are said to have become desperately scarce. the united states warns it's watching china very closely for any attempt to help russia in its attack on ukraine. and an anti—war protester interrupts prime time news on russian state television —

denouncing the conflict in ukraine.