charles stratford al jazeera at the of co, eastern ukraine and, and teenagers been killed and a russian strike on the port city in odessa. and miss, i had a residential building with 5 people inside. a gal was also injured and taken to hospital when you're a, his gun innocent your whole today, the russian army launched another few rockets on odessa. they destroyed a hostile or killed a 14 year old boy wounded a 17 year old girl. she has a shell fragment in her body. what's the point? what for what tainted those children posed the russian state. moving on and a severe storm that's fort tornadoes is ripping through the us state of oklahoma warnings have been issued for several towns in the east of the state and a neighboring arkansas media have reported. winds of 90 kilometers an hour and hail the size of golf balls. at least 7000 residents are without electricity. wildfires on the problem elsewhere and the u. s. hot dry winds are feeling the flames across the south western states of arizona and nevada and new mexico forcing thousands of evacuations from reynolds reports. the biggest acti

charles stratford al jazeera at the ymca eastern ukraine. still ahead on al jazeera, doing all they can to save their homes. wildfires spent for southwest him, stay several us. and oh, there we go. we got our 1st glimpse of it as it tumbled back to the ladies walking mission, mines meetings. ah, the journey has begun. the 3 full world camp is on its way to catherine book. your travel package today. now warm and cloudy seems to be the apt description for most the weekend for most of your new lot of class do in the sky, but not much of it is the white top star, which is what bears the rain and he's, he's caught him a messy pattern from the point you've lows in highs, but very few lines. so wind is not a big story for the most part. maybe impulsive scandinavia. this is a picture for tuesday. then, in addition to the clouds, is a line of blue, which is rain stretching from western russia down through germany in france, down toward particularly i barrier. so there is some brain around and it's b r. barry, where it really focuses, in fact, sitting

charles stratford is with ukrainian troops in east and sent this report. the black smoke rises from russian all control territory. we drive at high speed along what ukrainian soldiers call the road of life towards the front line. it's a walk through the forests to the trenches. the sound of artillery punches through the air flushing forces a troy to advance from the left and right flanks, but morale among the soldiers is high yard in a little leaf. when the war started, i had a huge adrenalin rush and a search and anger. now, more anger of what the washington up in lucia variable, and what they continue to do. many other places on the whenever be brothers liskey scars from mortar tillery strikes, russian forces frequently target disposition. that selling that you can hear is coming over our heads from russian positions and hitting ukrainian positions around about 2 or 3 kilometers from here. this is what heavy artillery sounds like when it's fired over your head. then the whoosh of the shell bloss through the air and the crunch. the hit explode. the soldie

charles stratford, al jazeera of the of co, eastern ukraine. and other developments a teenager has been killed in a russian strike on the port city of odessa. and miss l strike had a residential building with 5 people inside. a young girl has also been hospitalized a dresser, seen an increasing number of attack ridge in the southwest. it's the only road and railing from odessa across the denise to river estuary. the bridge has already been targeted twice by strikes. it's not clear if it's still open. meanwhile, the u. k is defense ministries as the russian army has suffered heavy losses in ukraine, according to its intelligence at the start of the conflict. moscow to elite units of office off at the highest level of damage will take years to reconstruct. well, israel's foreign minister is saying, call man spies russian counterpart, which heritage does not contradict moscow's claim to the country is run by nazis. and he added that some of the worst anti semites, a jews claims that hitler made by foreign, with the liberal, another rush of officia

charles stratford al jazeera at the of co eastern ukraine. a teenager boy has been killed in a russian missile strike on the port city of odessa. a residential building with 5 people inside was hit as well as a charge. a gull was also enchant, distressing more and more attacks from russia recently with forces rank whooping her tank. your brains, south and east. all the president wrote him is lance. he has expressed outrage at the attack in odessa swingers his goose gun in the center hole didn't wouldn't pull this. today, the russian army launched another few rockets on odessa, what they destroyed a hostile killed a 14 year old boy boone to the 17 year old girl. she has a shell fragment in her body. what's the point? what for, what time to those children pose the russian estate and ukrainian officials are saying that russian rockets have again struck a strategically important bridgenet desa. this is the only road and rail link from the city across the denise to river estuary. the bridge has already been targeted twice by russian strikes and it

charles stratford al jazeera of the of co easton ukraine, and a teenager has been killed and a russian strike on the port city of odessa. the missile had a residential building with 5 people inside. a gal was also injured and taken to hospital swingers his gun innocent should hold. today the russian army launched another few rockets on odessa. they destroyed a hostile but killed a 14 year old boy boone to the 17 year old girl. she has a shell fragment in her body. what's the point? what for what dying to the loath children posed the russian state. and fire has destroyed a historic school and the eastern ukrainian city of hans after russian shelling on sunday. the new hands, military administration says the school is one of the best institutes in the region, and the building is more than a century old. the government, the region has edged people to evacuate while they can as shelling intensifies. i'm leaving on the phones of spanish prime minister petro sanchez, and his defense minister have been hacked. government officials say pegasus spyware, which is made by the israeli n s o group,

standing by in berlin with the latest on the ease pushed to ban russian oil would begin there with charles stratford, who's in port ralph's in the eastern region of on the exc. and charles, what's the latest on the east and offensive? well, more heavy fighting overnight and into this morning in various locations in the east of ukraine in both the donnette screeching and the lou ganske region. yet again, we're hearing form the ukraine, all sorties about heavy fighting in and around the town of papa's. now, now this has been contested for weeks. now. we know that sir, all evacuation efforts, those evacuation of his being led by volunteers stopped a couple of days ago. we are hearing reports though, of one very brave 15 year old girl apparently who is reported to have basically driven herself and 3 other civilians out of that town this morning. we had reports that she was shot in the leg, but as made it to safety. we're also hearing from the regional military authorities of lou gangs. they're saying that around $50000.00 civilians still trapped in towns like papa's now and the surrounding villages. and

charles stratford al jazeera of the of co, easton ukraine. i'm developments elsewhere. a teenage boy has been killed in a russian missile strike on the port city of odessa. a residential building with 5 people inside was head as well as a church. a girl was also injured dresser, sina rising number of attacks from russia in recent weeks and in his nightly dress ukrainian present. rodney zalinski expressed outrage at the desperate tack swingers his gun innocent hole in a. tim will then pull this. today, the russian army launched another few rockets on odessa. what they destroyed a hostile killed a 14 year old boy boone to the 17 year old girl. she has a shell fragment in her body. what's the point? what for what time to those children pose the russian state, and that ukraine official se russian rockets have again struck us procedure, the important bridge in the south west. this is the only road and railing from odessa across the denise. the river estuary bridge has already been targeted twice by russian strikes. it's not clear if it's still open. so let's now speak with t

line was targeted on saturday. 7 people were injured when a residential building was struck. charl stratford has block of flats. who knows how many people would have been killed if it had been a direct hit? another attack as part of vladimir putin so called special operation in ukraine, wrecking civilian lives. even front doors deep inside the building buckles your life. but i have virtually nothing left. how can i live on? i don't know. that old firmly portrait lies among the rubble of books. her deceased husband used to read, stand to destroy bookcase family members have come to help. look miller. clear. the debrief olga holds a chunk of hartman pluck. why for what are their tanks here? are there soldiers? this is not a battle field. we have a school here and kindergarten. civil defense teams attached policy sheets to one of luke villas, destroyed windows. the residents throw the residence of their belongings onto the pavement below. oh, the 7 people suffered minor injuries explosion. it's incredible that nobody was killed in this attack and it comes at a time when, according to the ukrain

charles stratford is with ukrainian troops in the east and set this report -- sent this report. >> blackke rises from army-controlled territory. we drive at high speeds on what they call the road of life towards the front line. it is a walk through the forest, through the trenches. the sound of artillery punches through the air. russian forces are trying to advance from the left and right flanks. but morale among the soldiers is high. >> when the war started, i had a huge adrenaline rush and a surge of anger, no more anger -- now more anger after mariupol. and what they continue to do in other places. we will never be brothers. reporter: scars from mortar and artillery strikes. russian forces frequently target this position. that shelling that you can hear is coming over our heads from russian positions. here in ukrainian positions, around two or three kilometers from here. this is what have your sounds like when it is fired over your head -- heavy artillery sounds like when it is fired over your head. shells blast through the air. as they hit, they explode. they have antitank missiles,

line was targeted on saturday. 7 people were injured when a residential building was struck. charl stratford has law on the east and offensive from the town of gabriella. the russian missile slammed into the ground only meters away from this block of flats. who knows how many people would have been killed if it had been a direct hit? another attack as part of vladimir putin so called special operation in ukraine wrecking civilian lives. even front doors deep inside the building buckled on to the force of last. good miller has lived here in the eastern tailed of the propeller for more than 50 years off by his tractor sin where i live here alone. as my husband was killed mining coal and my son died. i had gone out for a walk when it hit. i know how like he, i am to be alive, but i have virtually nothing left. how can i live and i don't know. that old firmly portrait lies among the rubble of books. her deceased husband used to read, stand to be destroyed, bookcase, family members have come to help. look miller, clear, the debrief olga holds a chunk of shrapnel. she failed on the sitting room fl

when you've got charles stratford on the ground in crime, a tall skirt. charles, what's been happening there? that's right. as you propose it, at least 25 people reported as being injured in these attacks. or you can see behind me is only one. the strike site, one of a number of sites across the city that were hits, certainly according to people were spoken to here, the military here. this was a russian missile that sir landed in front of an office office building. there was nobody inside at the time of the strike. we do know is that cremmit all skis of huge to significance strategically to both sides. russians. one where we were in our understanding the russians are, are keen on hitting it because it is close to slab dance. it's only about a 1015 minute drive up to the city of sla vance. russian forces are trying to push south and surround both kramer tools and soviets can cremmit source for years. basically has been a garrison town. there is a lot of ukrainian military still in the city. and as you can see behind me, there are still a lot of civilians, n

showing towns like the man to the east, and barb and covey to the west, which is from where's charles stratford reports? me, we are very close to the village of bottles of inquiry which is south of israel and represents in this war. effectively a new front, a new attempt by russian forces to push myself in order to surround the city of sloppy and sc. now, we can't films, soldiers out disposition, but one thing i can tell you is that they are very nervous. and the reason that is, is because this particular position came on the far tillery, far earlier today, it's all known how many people are still inside, but of ink away. we have not seen any civilians leaving but since we arrived yet again, a lot of heavy shilling, we believe targeting the east of the town. savanski is the target. it is the big urban center with neighboring criminal ask in this area. and so far, at least the ukrainians have managed to keep russian forces back. but there is a fear amongst the soldiers here that the closer we get to may the nights and a day that vladimir putin, it's believed once something to show for their effo

. meanwhile, russia has been intensifying is offensive in the east of ukraine al jazeera, as charles stratford is in tor poured li are where there's been shelly, were the tale of gold, replete out all. all right, just the per roll to show you this residential blog. this sir, this residential blocker and a miss all land basically next to it. yesterday morning, around 20 families living in there. the majority of them had been evacuated in the, in the weeks a previous weeks, miraculously, only 7 people injured, apparently receiving early, suffering, minor injury. this was one of 2 missiles strikes that hit this tail yesterday. and what's interesting is, is that it is at least 50 kilometers away to where the active front line is. and it strikes like this, that a consistent with what the ukranian military is saying is evidence that they have of the beginnings of a serious push by russian forces to take as much territory as they can in the coming days. potentially, as i say, up to that date, that salient important date of may the nights in the eyes of vladimir putin. because we're getting increasing

there is at charles stratford reports for near by flew beef cap attempts to get the mouse have stopped because of the danger to volunteers . yeah, although suny scald, with sicily chemical surrogate roscoe was a construction worker before russia invaded ukraine. when the war started, he volunteered as a civilian evacuation driver for his now missing who would fear dead. this video shows him after he had rescued civilians from the besieged town of port persona. in the east of the country, the liberal eagle was his co driver on that day. he says, saturday, told him, if he could save another 20 people, his life would not be in vain. we, i was in your y'alls. i could see the entrance to pal puzzler says eagle, what russian soldiers suddenly jumped out from the left. it happened so fast. they fired a rocket propelled grenade, but it miss risk when they started shooting machine guns and rifles was the windows shut. it said gay kept driving, but he was hit and began falling. dragging the steering wheel to the left. we bade off the road, crushing through small trees where i was crouched down,

charles stratford has the latest on that east in offensive from pok roscoe. in that the john, yet gratian were more heavy fighting. overnights and into this morning in various locations in the east of ukraine, and both the donut screeching and the lucas screeching. yet again, we're hearing from the ukranian all sorties about heavy fighting in and around the town of papa's. now now this has been contested for weeks. now we know that all evacuation efforts, those evacuation, if it's being led by volunteers stopped a couple of days ago. we're also hearing from the regional military authorities of lou guns. they're saying that around $50000.00 civilians still trapped in towns like papa's anna and the surrounding villages. and as i say, evacuation efforts pretty much stopped. we know that russian forces had been trying to push down south towards those cities of sla vianza and cremmit tool square. of course, yesterday we saw the city recovering from one of the largest bombardments of rockets to hit the city since the war began. now we were in the forests in that ar

a traps there was charles stratford reports from nearby rebekah attempts to get them out have stopped because of the danger to volunteers. for those who scold with sicily, chemical surgery rascal was a construction worker before russia invaded ukraine. when the war started, he volunteered as a civilian evacuation driver is now missing dead. this video shows him after he had rescued civilians from the besieged town of port persona in the east of the country. the live up on the eagle was his co driver on that day. he says said a gay told him if he could save another 20 people, his life would not be in vain. we should be your partner. yes, i could see the entrance to proposals, says eagle. what russian soldiers suddenly jumped out from the left. it happened so fast. they fired a rocket propelled grenade, but it miss risk and they started shooting machine guns and rifles. it was the windows shattered. sergei kept driving, but he was hit and began falling, dragging the steering wheel to the left. we bid off the road, crushing through small trees. i was crouched down, pushing up against the

let's him out from charl stratford who's just outside. i. d. fca on the front line in east new credit. he describes what the situation is like for residents fleeing the town was quite as, as we went in, but a lot of destruction. lot of the buildings destroyed. and some very terrified people as well that have been living in a bunker in the center of town. and we asked them, as you can imagine, what their plans were now and how it felt to be to be evacuated after having spent so many days in this bunker. one, dear old lady wellings, her eighties, utterly distraught, breaking down, saying, please, we just need to move now. i don't want to die. other younger people there are young couples saying that the only plan that they had in place was to get as quickly as possible out of africa. that group now will be taken over basically a 3 day journey across ukraine to a shelter in the west of ukraine. and from there on, i mean it's, it's basically up to the individuals as to whether they stay in ukraine, whether they indeed have anything organized that

charles stratford is that the explosion let the crater around 3 meters deep flat and the surrounding residential palm of blocks were destroyed. the blushed shredded trees in the park were children usually clay. this was one of a number of attacks across grammar tours in what was the largest similar famous barrels of rockets and the city. since russia invaded ukraine more than 2 months ago. but mostly we were sleeping and were waken by a series of explosions before there was one massive blast. but thank god, no one was killed. a couple of kilometers away this parade of shops and small businesses was also hit. the city men says that 25 people were injured in the attacks. it's miraculous, locally, was killed. the soldiers have collected shrapnel to try and identified a weapon that was used until i heard it was a rocket attack. there was a siren and then huge explosion. my apartment is about 100 meters from and all the windows are below. now. the scale of the destruction here shows you just how powerful the explosion was. there are tens of flaps that have been pretty much completely dest

auto zeros. charl stratford is in back. moved in eastern. okay. we've been around the city of lissy chance today, a city that is suffering and incredible bombardment of shilling this afternoon. indeed, i drive up to all jets horizon of $180.00 degrees. we could see various points where smoke was rising, an indication of villages and towns right the way across that region, suffering russian shilling. we know that there is close contact fighting in a number of these towns, notably, puzzler. we be speaking to volunteer evacuation drivers in around that area. they have now stopped their evacuation efforts from paula that follows the what we understand is the killing of one driver and the kidnapping of another. we're also getting reports from the town of the car that's close to done it. sc pro russian separate is controlled. done. it's there are reports of at least 10 people killed and 15 other injured off. a shells landed on a coke plugged close to that city. now these coke brown is considered to be the largest in europe. it employs thousands of peopl

charles stratford al jazeera at the of co eastern ukraine. still ahead on al jazeera, doing all they can to save their homes. wildfires spread further, far south western se sent the us. oh, there we go. we got our 1st glimpse of it. as it fell from space one, explain the major swanky mission that guy experience thinks, cited ah the hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe and it's a pretty quiet picture for much of the region. we are, however, so seeing those unsettled conditions in the south for the southwest, the iberian peninsula, as well as for the southeast, some heavier rain and a thunderstorm or 2 for greece and turkey. but it's really spain that is going to see the rain intensify. we have got warnings out for thunderstorms and heavy rain particular for eastern areas by the time we get into the mid week. but further north of this, it is a pretty quiet picture. warm conditions across much of scandinavia, blustery winds as well. so with that we've got wildfire warnings to southern areas of norway and southern areas of

all the un correspondent charles stratford embassy bought the bus, taking evacuees to safety from the frontline town of a difficult to be our volunteer evacuation driver eagle comedy have listened to directions from a contact on the front line. there will be a petrol station. you go straight off to the cross roads. you turn right. she says, we put on our protective vests and get on the bus you. it's an alice drive to the town of gus through countryside. that so far doesn't bear the skulls of war. eagle's church group got a call that up to 40. people wanted to be evacuated immediately. he has to move fast because there's been a low in the shelling bush. we feel we have to do some think because people have to live. it's as simple as that. when we go in, we are very anxious, but when we get people out, we feel joy. not those weak, destroyed buildings begin to appear as we enter town. the bus stops and we walked down into a nearby bunker all in our fled shelling around the town of cremmit horse with her 2 daughters, uva and maria. she says she is too afraid to leave the relative safety of

charles stratford al jazeera at the ymca eastern ukraine. the gap now the eastern region of the hands, his urging people to evacuate. as russia shelling intensifies this historic school in least janski's caught fire after it was hit on sunday. then the hands, military administration says it's regarded as one of the best institutions in the region and the building is more than a century old. cilla head on al jazeera and the battle in the us to control wildfires that seem to be on trying to become the largest and most destructive in new mexico. oh, there we go. we got our 1st glimpse of it and the latest re usable, walk at mission that's capturing much attention. ah, it's been very wet in vietnam the last 2 or 3 days and there's no real ceasing that . but the real white top try the real heavy rain bearing try to paste, be focusing now on north and sumatra as the orange top. so that's the very wet stuff, is likelihood of pretty heavy rain, i think in northern news on and maybe in the south of the philippines. elsewhere is pretty seasonal stuff.

charles stratford is there. the explosion left the crater around 3 meters, deep flies and the surrounding residential portable blocks were destroyed. the blast shred the trees in the park where children usually play. this was one of a number of attacks across criminals. in what was the largest similar tiniest barrage of rockets in the city since russia invaded ukraine organ 2 months ago we were sleeping in wakened by a series of explosions before there was one mass of blast. thank god, no one was killed. a couple of kilometers away this parade of shops and small businesses was also hit. the city men says that 25 people were injured in the attacks. it's miraculous that nobody was killed. soldiers have collected shrapnel to try and identified a weapon that was used until i heard it was a rocket attack. there was a siren and then a huge explosion. my apartment is about 100 meters from and all the windows are below. now, the scale of the destruction here shows you just how powerful the explosion was. there are tens

when charles stratford has more on that eastern offensive from deborah police, the russian missile slammed into the grilled only liters away from this book reflects who knows, how many people would have been killed? could it be the direct hit? another attack is positive. vladimir putin so called special operation ukraine, wrecking civilian lives. even front doors deep inside the building buckled until the force of last. good miller has lived here in the eastern tail of the propeller for more than 50 years, which by heap trafton sin, i live here alone. as my husband was killed mining call and my son died. i had gone out for a walk when it hit. i know how like he, i am to be alive, but i have virtually nothing left. how can i live and i don't know. that old firmly portrait lies among the rubble of books. her deceased husband used to read stand destroyed bookcase. family members have come to help. look miller clear. the debrief olga holds a chunk of shrapnel. she failed on the sitting room floor floor there was the j. yeah. why did they hit here? this is a residential apartment block. why, fo

fighting threatens to disrupt efforts involving the un to evacuate civilians trapped in the pot. charl stratford is in macau live care. in the donnette region, he says, ukrainian forces have repelled russia. assaults along the eastern front line. we went, sir, with the ukrainian army. they took us to a front line, prince trench position close to the town of de netscape. and at the ymca there was a lot of shelling that we heard a logic shells being exchange or fire being exchanged by both sides. shells actually going over these positions, hitting targets and basically to the south and to the north of where we were. it was very loud when we arrived. we were speaking to the soldiers in these trenches, highly motivated men and women, and a lot of weapons as well. including weapons that have been supplied by nato countries, such as those are so the ukrainians will say highly important, an anti tank weapons. and the situation there they have managed to hold. so far, russian forces back and what's interesting is that they're off areas for the left and right of that position if you like, that saw basica

charles stratford al jazeera at the ymca eastern ukraine. and a teenager has been killed in a russian strike on the port city of odessa. the missiles had a residential building with 5 people inside. a gal was also injured and taken to hospital. so when you come in the center today, the russian army launched another few rockets on a desa. they destroyed a hostile or killed a 14 year old boy going to the 17 year old girl. she has a shell fragment in her body. what's the point? what for what tainted, those children pose the russian state. meanwhile, israel has demanded an apology for moscow after russia's foreign ministers. lab rove claimed that adult hitler had jewish blood, rushes ambassador to israel with someone to talk lab. rob also said the ukrainian presidents, jewish heritage doesn't contradict moscow as claims that the countries run by nazis . and he added that in his was some of the worst anti semites are jews, theories that hippo was partly jewish, widely rejected by historians. well, it leads prime minister mario druggie described l

let's get the latest now from al jazeera, as charles stratford, who joins us live from dub, were appeal. yeah, in eastern ukraine. charlie 1st, what, what are you hearing about the efforts to evacuate more civilians from our the as of tal seal plant in marable. well what we understand is that there are ongoing efforts being led by the you and try and negotiate safe passage to gets a convoy all the vehicles in there to that as of still pump and pull more people out. it was interesting. yesterday, the reports of at least 20 people, including women and children who were rescued out of the as of that that join great soviet bill plan that has obviously been under siege now for weeks. but interestingly, there is as yet no verifiable proof of life. it's not known exactly where these people have been taken. it was hoped that they were going to be taken says up virginia city, north of mary opal. and they haven't been seen there yet. and they're all rumors that they may well have been taken across into the russian side. so we wait to see news on the beginnings what seems to be potentially the beg

but western intelligence suggest russian troops are only making minor advances as charles stratford reports . but we are very close to the village of bottle of inquiry, which is south of israel and represents in this war. effectively a new front, a new attempt by russian forces to push south in order to surround the city of slow sc. now, we can't film the soldiers of this position, but one thing i can tell you is that they are very nervous. and the reason that is, is because this particular position came under fire artillery fire. earlier today. it's all known how many people are still inside, but of ink away. we have not seen any civilians leaving but since we arrived yet again, a lot of heavy shilling, we believe targeting the east of the town. sabi, unskilled is the target. it is the big urban center with neighboring cremmit oscar in this area. and so far, at least, the ukrainians have managed to keep russian forces back. but there is a fear amongst the soldiers here that the closer we get to may the nights and a day that vladimir putin, it's believed once something to show for their eff

charles stratford is in mccully of care in need to net screven. he says that ukrainian forces have repelled russian assaults along the eastern front line. we went, sir with the ukranian army, they took us to a front line, prince trench position close to the town of donates an idea of cur. there was a lot of shelling that we heard a logic shells being exchange of fire being exchanged by both sides. shells actually going over these positions. hitting targets are basically to the south and to the north of where we were. it was very loud when we arrived. we were speaking to, to the soldiers in these trenches, highly motivated men and women, and a lot of weapons as well, including weapons that have been supplied by nato countries such as those are. so the ukrainians will say highly important, an anti tank weapons and the situation there they have managed to hold so far, russian forces back and what's interesting is that there are areas for the left and right of that position if you like, that saw a, basically a lot louder, where the russian forces and

charles stratford reports me. we are very close to the village of bottle vancouver, which is south of elysium and represents in this war. effectively a new front, a new attempt by russian forces to push south in order to surround the city of slow sc. now, we can't film the soldiers of this position, but one thing i can tell you is that they are very nervous. and the reason that is, is because this particular position came on the far tillery, far earlier today, it's all known how many people are still inside, but of ink away. we have not seen any civilians leaving but since we arrived yet again, a lot of heavy shilling, we believe targeting the east of the town. savanski is the target. it is the big urban center with neighboring cremmit oscar in this area. and so far, at least the ukrainians have managed to keep russian forces back. but there is a fear amongst the soldiers here that the closer we get to may the nights and a day that vladimir putin, it's believed once something to show for their efforts, the russian

it's head to the west now where charles stratford is standing by in levine and charles, the un chiefs expected to visit moldova. what are we expecting to eventually from that trip? which is to put this visit from the un secretary general inch mold over into context old over of huge importance potentially in this war, this visit i good terrorist comes after. in the last couple of weeks we have seen all reports of bombings and shootings in the breakaway self declared republic of trans, mr. now, trans, mr. broke away from moldova in the chaos. in the immediate aftermath of the break up the soviet union in the early ninety's, it is a pro russian self declared republic relies very much on russia for its gas supplies, and the bolstering of its economy. it has around what is understood to be around $1500.00 russian troops inside trends nature. and of course, there are huge fears that we could have a spill over to the west of ukraine in that area. as, as this conflict continues, it comes, this music from guitar is only a couple of weeks also of the statements made by a russian general, one ru

okay, charles stratford forest there. thank you very much. now let's take an update to what's happening in mary, a pole. so if you wanna brew is a spokesman for the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in ukraine, he joined this lives now from its operation where vacuum from mario, poland, elsewhere have been arriving. thanks for being with us here on the program. now russia has promised a ceasefire to allow most civilians to levy besieged steelworks invariable. do you know if this is actually happening? but hopefully i knew i positive that it will happen because i did buy both the conflicts, not only by iraq out also, but they both mental training and we did see it happening the last basically a lot last couple of days. as you mentioned, we have a number of people that arrived here. thanks today for coordinate by the un, which the i see, i see i beta national committee for the for the red cross. we went to my ball, you went, should have stopped running. we brought to safety here in jeopardy to more than 400 people. so we ar

charles stratford is that the explosion let the crater around 3 meters deep, flat, and the surrounding residential apartment blocks were destroyed. the blast shred the trees in the park where children usually play. this was one of a number of attacks across criminals. in what was the largest similar failures barrage of rockets in the city. since russia invaded ukraine over 2 months ago. we were sleeping in wakened by a series of explosions before there was one master bluffed. thank god, no one was killed. a couple of kilometers away. this parade of shops and small businesses was also hid. the city men says that 25 people were injured in the attacks. it's miraculous that nobody was killed. soldiers have collected shrapnel to try and identified a weapon that was used until i heard it was a rocket attack. there was a siren and then a huge explosion. my apartment is about 100 meters from and all the windows are blown out. the scale of the destruction here shows you just how powerful the explosion was. there are tens of flaps that have been pretty much completely destroyed in the bloss ukra

charles stratford isn't barcroft in done yet with more on the offensive in the east. well, more heavy fighting overnight and into this morning in various locations in the east of ukraine and both the donnette screeching and the lou gun screech. and yet again, we're hearing form the ukranian all sorties about heavy fighting in and around the town of papa's. now now this has been contested for weeks. now we know that sir. all evacuation efforts, those evacuation if it's being led by volunteers stopped a couple of days ago. we're also hearing from the regional military authorities of lou guns. they're saying that around $50000.00 civilians still trapped in towns like papa's anna and the surrounding villages. and as i say, evacuation efforts pretty much stopped. we know that russian forces had been trying to push down south towards those cities of sla vianza and crematory square. of course, yesterday we saw the city recovering from one of the largest bombardments of rockets to hit the city since the war began. now we were in the forests in that area between kramer tools a

charles stratford reports the explosion left a creature around 3 meters deep flat. should the surrounding residential, portable books were destroyed, who blushed shredded trees in the park where children usually play. this was one of a number of attacks across grammar tools. in what was the largest symbol tribute barrels you're walking from the city. since russia invaded ukraine 2 months ago, but mostly we were sleeping and were woken by a series of explosions before. there was one massive blast called no one was killed . a couple of kilometers away, this parade of shops and small businesses was also hit. the city men says that 25 people were injured in the attacks. it's miraculous that nobody was killed. soldiers have collected shrapnel to try and identified a weapon that was used until i heard it was a rocket attack. there was a siren and then a huge explosion. my apartment is about 100 meters from and all the windows are blown out on the scale of the destruction here shows you just how powerful the explosion was. there are tens of flaps that have been pretty much