and in the case of marie uppal —— of mariupol, it is notjust a case that marie uppal —— of mariupol,t the marie uppal —— of mariupol, it is notjust a case that the maternity hospital was shattered, it is an entire city of suffering, for the past week, they've been without food, water, heat and gas. today was the fifth straight day where they tried to take advantage of what was supposed to be a humanitarian corridor, to get supplies in and to get people out. it didn't work. but in a lull in the fighting, because there are so many dead bodies lining there are so many dead bodies lining the streets, there was a mass burial. 70 people were buried today, no ceremony, no families. in this war, now in its third week, there is no dignity for the dead, and for the living, there's growing danger, growing but also, growing defiance. lyse doucet, there, reporting from kyiv, thank you. in the north—east of ukraine, in the city of sumy, thousands of civilians are escaping to relative safety after the russians agreed to a humanitarian route. some 7,000 people were evacuated from there yesterday, in

an evacuation is due to begin in the keyport of marie uppal this morning, from 10am local time.r to actually talk to each other and sort out how it is going to work and what you really need in this situation is a lot of trust and communication between the warring parties to be good so they are in touch with each other to make sure it happens effectively and i think one of the real difficulties is going to be the fact that the whole of putin's war has been based on a mountain of lies and dishonesty and it must be extraordinarily difficult for the ukrainian forces to address the question ofjust how much trust we have in the local russian commanders to see if this is really going to work. as i say, it is not unprecedented, it can sometimes be surprising how well troops communicate with each other when they have agreed on a limited action of this kind. it is they have agreed on a limited action of this kind-— of this kind. it is impossible at the moment — of this kind. it is impossible at the moment to _ of this kind. it is impossible at the moment to know- of this kind. it is impos

in the south of ukraine, there are no agreements, and people in marie uppal, under siege, and in debtor devastation in sumy. this is the situation there at the moment from continued shelling and bombing, you can see why people are so absolutely desperate to leave sumy. we know that now ukrainians from sumy, that evacuation is under way. that has come from the ukrainian residential of the. , :, , come from the ukrainian residential of the. , :,, ::, :, :, of the. ten people confirmed to have died in sumy — of the. ten people confirmed to have died in sumy yesterday, _ of the. ten people confirmed to have died in sumy yesterday, -- _ of the. ten people confirmed to have died in sumy yesterday, -- the - died in sumy yesterday, —— the ukrainian presidential office have confirmed that the evacuation is under way. confirmed that the evacuation is underway. but confirmed that the evacuation is under way. but ten people died in sumy yesterday, some believed to be children. they are moving south to another city, that is the first phase, they might go there from there to kyiv to other places in u

volunteers inside the city,, and we planned it in the beginning, we have had to bring money and food to marie uppaly one of our ways. and i want to tell now, that maruipol is a humanitarian disaster. it is not only words, it is absolutely true. and now you can imagine it that in 2022,100,000 and now you can imagine it that in 2022, 100,000 people leave the city under air force bombing, —— they live in the city, they have no water, they use rain water to drink, they use open fire to cook their food. they don't have a connection and they don't know what happened now all over the world. yes, a lot of people were evacuated. but maybe now today they will be 20,000, 15,000, but yesterday i spoke with my partners, the... people from ukraine going to the nearest big city close to maruipol. the largest organisation told me about 1000 people they have got. but maybe with a few organisations, may be 4000 people. it is not 25. you have to understand that we are asking the world for help to bring a corridor. because it's unbelievable nowadays to have a city with these problems, you know? to have a city with the

the mayor of mary uppal has been able to get through from time to time —— the mayor of mariupol, andeval to me. it looks like what the armies of genghis khan would do, it does not look like 21st europe. and i think thatis look like 21st europe. and i think that is what we are facing, unfortunately, the environment where i don't think we are looking at rational actors. i don't think we are looking at rationalactors. it i don't think we are looking at rational actors. it is just bar —— barbarian. back to your. rational actors. it isjust bar -- barbarian. back to your.- rational actors. it isjust bar -- barbarian. back to your. back to our barbarian. back to your. back to your immediate _ barbarian. back to your. back to your immediate circumstance, l barbarian. back to your. back to your immediate circumstance, i | barbarian. back to your. back to - your immediate circumstance, i think your immediate circumstance, i think you said that the neighbours had been helping. is it your hope that wherever they have gone, they will have taken her with them? is that what you are hoping for? i ha

ukrainian flag fly and the mayor has urged people to not be aggressive towards russian troops, but marie uppalnded as we speak. a facebook post has been issued, one of the most popular ways to communicate, and they say we have continued to repel russian attacks, they talk about the russian navy in the black sea continually targeting civilian ships and taking captains hostage down there. they have also urged bloggers or people who post a lot online not to share where these strikes are happening, where shells are landing, because they say that will help the russians we aim as they try to take out their intended targets ——. they try to take out their intended targets ---— as we've been hearing, a million people have now fled ukraine since the conflict began. 0ur reporter rob cameron is at the slovakia—ukraine border. the sun is coming up over the border crossing, one of three that slovakia has on its 100 kilometre border with ukraine. i have been herejust over a week and what started as a fairly makeshift operation has been transformed into aid relief effort being run literally with military prec