francis, thank you very much, francis scarr, _ to think. , francis scarr, from - to think. francis, thank you very much, francis scarr, from bbc l much, francis scarr, from bbc monitoring. we can now go to the ukrainian capital, our correspondentjames capital, our correspondent james waterhouse is capital, our correspondentjames waterhouse is there. before we talk about tanks and the other equipment president zelensky is calling for, tell us about the missiles aimed at various locations around ukraine this morning, including in kyiv. yes, usually tend to measure the seriousness of these widespread missile strikes by the length of time we spend underground. we have been here for a few hours. it is clearly a sustained and wide—ranging attack. in the small hours we heard reports of drone attacks, drones being in the air and reported explosions in the south—eastern city of dnipro. no reported casualties there. and then a few hours ago the authorities were saying that there are 30 missiles in the air. the way ukraine's defences work is that when

francis scarr from bbc monitoring.om germany just coming into us, from the afp news agency government reporting the german defence minister boris pistorius saying that leopard tanks pledged by germany to help ukraine will arrive in late march to early april. that's what the german defence minister boris pistorius is being quoted as saying about the arrival of those tanks from germany. training of ukrainian troops on german infantry fighting vehicles will start in the next few days, he added. and for the ukrainian soldiers who will be trained on the leopard tanks, it will be a little later. some confirmation of timeframes from germany, it's an appropriate moment to bring in my next guest. let's speak to dr patrick bury, a defence and security expert at the university of bath and former nato analyst. interesting to hear the line quoted by the german defence minister, doctor bury. in terms of the other countries who are sending tanks to ukraine, what is your professional estimate of when they could get those delivered to

to discuss the fall out of the strike on makiivka let's talk to francis scarr who keeps an eye on russiace on social media, they broadly agree with the perspective that russia has on ukraine about invading the country and taking lots of territory, they been criticising the technical level of operations by the russian army. and they say that this is at least three figures and we know this was a vocational college next to donetsk and occupied ukraine and around midnight and on new year's eve and new year's day, ukraine launched a series of rockets which completely flattened this building and some report that there was any ammunition stored there. and this area near the river had been mobilising this part of the conscription wave back in september. as a people who are not even gotten to the front line yet and they lost their lives. in to the front line yet and they lost their lives— to the front line yet and they lost their lives. , ., . , , . their lives. in terms of what russia has been saying. — their lives. in terms of what russia has been saying, we _ their lives. in terms of what russ