sirens. it has been a real assault on ordinary lives. this is the neighbour and that's where the bomb, whatever it was.

and it's impossible to even imagine the extent of the horror that will unfold here. this is the neighbour, that's his house, and that's where the bomb, whatever it was. his house is here, my parents were here and the bomb landed in the middle and the entrance to the cellar was on the side. they were both in there. we did not know what was happening with them so i watch this video and i was like i could not even finish it. i was trying to call them but there was no reply. as they heard, their parents were still hiding in the cellar of her house. the same place that she had with her daughters before they ran.

on facebook a lot of people are seen can you please pick up my mum where grandmother or children in the basement, you don't know who's alive and people on the streetjust dead.

finally they got a phone call. it was their mum and dad. they're alive and forced to accept that it's time to leave bucha. theyjoin hundreds of people trying to leave the suburbs of kyiv. a pause in intense fighting has been agreed. but it's still not safe. travelling through this border region we find every hotel and every guesthouse full of people who left ukraine. and some heading in the other direction. in the town i meet dennis. this morning he woke up to hear

that this had happened. just yesterday night my city was under attack. my wife and i have two daughters, they're waiting for me. it's mid—march and russian forces are pushing along the side coast of ukraine. they want to capture the port city of odesa on the black sea. and mykoliev stands in the way. dennis was working as an engineer when the war started. he wants to drive to over the border to deliver supplies and to rescue his family. what are you bringing? oil, food, medicine, the most expensive medicine.

how do you feel about seeing your daughters? i miss them. i worry... you will see them soon? yeah, i will see them soon. from the moment i cross the border i don't have any plans, i cannot make any plans actually because i don't know how it will go, it's unpredictable. if you go to ukraine you pick up your family but you can't go in. yes, yes. i will go to the border and pick them up and bring to the european union and i have to stay so it's a one—way ticket for me but anyway i am ready. but for now he is stuck here in romania waiting for a piece of paperwork so that the van can cross the border. waiting, it's very difficult.

i'm reading the news and ifeel worse and worse but anyway we cannot give up. it must be terrifying for you? i cannot explain what i feel now. putin's war has created an exodus from ukraine. since the beginning of the invasion more than 4 million people have left. and by mid—march thousands are crossing into romania every day. at this border in the tiny town of suret. they are met with a wall of kindness from the romanian emergency services. and from hundreds of volunteers like katya. she is from southeast ukraine. her mum still lives there.

it's all that they brought with them. she lives in the uk but the day the war broke out she came here with her partner. we are looking for physical work. they are organising the shipment of aid especially medicine into the town. on the other side her mum is also helping out. there is the sign, welcome to ukraine. hey. my mum.

this morning has been especially difficult. she woke up to hear that her town was attacked for the first time. she said she has no time to hide. she is afraid she would lose contact with her mum. she has been trying to convince her to leave. when do you think you'll

be ready to leave? she doesn't want to. she loves her city. nice to meet you. stay safe. have you accepted the fact your mother is not going to leave or are you going to keep trying? it's down to me that the possibility of me losing her it is not zero, it's possible. before it was an irrational fear and now it's a rational fear. i had an outburst last night

and somehow the flow of warm feelings from childhood and remembering how she took care of me when i was little and ijust lost it for a few minutes. they havejust heard from their mum and dad. there on the side of the border just waiting for us. still 20 minutes. but one person is not with them. she is saying she does not miss her grandparents any more, she misses her dad now. she knows that her grandparents are coming. it's hard to explain to kids as well that

knows when they will see their dad. but it's not the same, is it? because of ukraine's martial law her husband cannot leave. they are somewhere in the building. they said they are somewhere in the building but i have not seen a building there.

how was the journey? good. all good. they got lucky. and only 15 minutes and they were through. two borders in 15 minutes. what was it like leaving home? don't ask. for now you can't even explain, a0 years building and building and

in one minute it's all gone. my dad actually builds the house that we lived in and the house that my sister lived in. after almost two weeks sleeping on the ground they can finally get a warm shower and a good night sleep. my mum is like i've been in this hat for ten days without taking it off. when we are home i will make you warm. but there are thousands of families still trapped by fighting in ukraine.

we are just waiting for dennis. he was supposed to be crossing into ukraine in the van but they still have not got the paperwork and things are getting so bad where his family is that he is going to cross on foot and just try and get there however he can. nervous. dennis has no idea what to expect on the other side. but there is some good news, his wife and daughters have escaped.

not the best case. i want to see my country. what's your plan?

go home. what is the latest with your wife and children? i am waiting for them to cross the border to moldova now. good luck. thank you. i can't imagine what must be going through his head right now. minutes after he crosses into ukraine a message come through from dennis. i'm home he says. we are heading back into meet

the parents and they've been in romania about a day now and they had a chance for a good sleep and a warm shower so i will catch up at them and find out more about their journey. tell us a bit about the past two weeks and how have you been?

so when did you finally decide to leave?

before he retired, he was a builder but he has no idea if he will return to the home and the town that he helped build.

petra and ludmila have gone to portugal for now. at the end of march russian forces were pushed out of bucha. a neighbour told petro that their house is still standing but it's been ransacked. evidence is emerging of potential war crimes in bucha. civilians have been found dead on the street. galia and her daughters have come to london to stay with lesia and her husband is still in ukraine. katya and petro are back in london and still raising money to buy medicine to send to ukraine.

natasha is still in nipro. and dennis hasjoined the territorial defence forces in mikolaiv. his wife and daughters made it safely out of ukraine. temperatures were around 70 degrees. for the rest of this week it looks like it will be cooler than what we are used to over the easter weekend. they will be a few showers around as well with some spells of sunshine and it looks like it will turn dry for the end of the week. knights

will continue to be chilly and grey skies are clear but it's fresher air mass and we are between weather systems so twins will be like. we have got a cooler air mass around us so it will be another cool day. a cold start with a touch of frost across parts of scotland and northern ireland and bremen have this weather front across the northwest of scotland bringing showers otherwise some sunshine here. sunny spells with cloud and showers for england and wales. some of the showers can be heavy and slow moving as the windows to be light across in light winds as well for the northwest of scotland. 14 or 15 degrees and snow as about 10 or 11 across the north of scotland. as he head into tuesday night we will see clouds and what showers pushing last. skies are cloudy with those of four to 8 degrees and skies are clear and we will see a touch of frost. 0n clear and we will see a touch of frost. on wednesday high pressure is

strengthening across scandinavia keeping low pressure system out at bay which will remain out in the atlantic. northern ireland and the rest of break and will be dry feelings wednesday. some clouds and sunshine and an eastern breeze developing across england and it may take the edge of the temperatures here. had england for west and you could see highs of 18 degrees. somewhat warmer on wednesday with some sunshine. wednesday into thursday the high pressure is strengthening. it will push this area of low pressure towards the southwest of the country. it never makes inroads because of this area of high pressure. thursday is a dry unsettled day thanks to high pressure. but the wind from the east or north will be strong and turn cold air across the north sea coast and eastern scotland and england with some low cloud. the temperatures will be further west with highs of 17 degrees. for friday but pressure will be sitting across

iberia with high pressure in control to the north of the uk bringing in northeast winds which will be strong at times. it will take the edge of the temperatures but across north sea coast and we can see low cloud and mist. 0n 9 or 10 degrees in aberdeen or newcastle. heading west and south we could see 17 degrees in south wales and england. next weekend and the following week the area of low pressure could affect southern parts with some rain and we could see rain pushing into the start of next week. high pressure will continue to hold on across the north of the uk bringing a lot of dry weather across the northern half of the uk. you could see: influx moving down from the northeast but generally speaking will stay mild. it would be a north, south divide into that weekend we could see a few showers across southern areas steam drier in the north but a lot of dry weather in the forecast as we head into the following week and at times

it will turn cold in the north and milder in the south.

hello, i'm nuala mcgovern. you're watching the context on bbc news. russia expands its attacks across ukraine — russians claim they've hit 300 targets across the country. in lviv, in the west, 7 people die in airstrikes, as parts of the country previously unscathed, come underfire. president putin says the west has scored an own goal by imposing sanctions against russia, but moscow's mayor says the downturn threatens 200 thousand jobs in the capital alone. and — how the increasing cost of living means we're cutting back on the streaming services we're willing to pay for. tonight with the context, from london former culture secretary and now conservative peer ed vaizey and democratic strategist mary anne marsh who's in cape cod.