2:50
On board the train taking injured Ukrainians west
Tom Bateman
Reporting from Dnipro
Injured people on board a train in Dnipro
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I’ve been hearing the accounts of badly wounded civilians from war in the Donbas region as they are evacuated by train to the west of Ukraine.
Twelve-year-old Katia is carried on board on a stretcher. Her mum was killed in last week’s missile attack on Kramatorsk station, which left Katia badly injured and needing further hospital treatment. She tells me the scene of the blast was “like a nightmare”. She grieves for her mother and leaves without her father, who is staying behind in the east.
Another family waiting nearby has also had a devastating loss. Tanya explains that her eldest daughter Marina was killed a few days ago. It happened in a car crash during the rush to evacuate as the outskirts of her town were under heavy bombardment.
She says she was trying to get her family to a safe place. One of her younger children has a fractured skull.
“I’m scared for my children,” says Tanya. “I’m very sorry for the price I had to pay for leaving my own home. We didn’t want to go.”
Platform one is filled with stretchers as patients are carried on board. Staff from the medical charity MSF who have organised the evacuation load people onto specially modified trains. The evacuation involves a gruelling 20-hour journey west to Lviv along lines which have already faced attack.
In Soviet-era carriages they flee Russia’s advance, helping free up hospital space in the east where fears grow of a major assault.
Child with facial injuries is escorted by medical personnel
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This child arrived at the station ready to be evacuated to the west
4:33
Luhansk residents urged to evacuate immediately: Report
Residents of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine have been urged to evacuate immediately, according to a report by Ukrainian news agency UNIAN.
"Next week may be difficult. [This] may be the last time we still have a chance to save you," the head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai was quoted as saying.
Russian forces have trained their focused on capturing Luhansk and Donetsk which are part of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, an old coal and steel-producing area.
Putin had recognised the entirety of the two eastern regions as independent of Ukraine just before the war.
Ukraine's armed forces have been preparing themselves for a brutal Russian offensive in this region.
5:11
Official alleges Russia planning to restrict movement within Mariupol
An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol says that Russian troops are issuing "movement passes" to those who remain in the city.
Petro Andriushchenko - who is not currently in the city but shares information on the ground - made the allegation via Telegram on Sunday, sharing a photo that appears to show people lining up.
"Hundreds of citizens have to stand in line to get a pass, without which next week it will be impossible not only to move between districts of the city, but also to be on the streets," he wrote.
Andriushchenko suggested that occupying forces were probably gathering information on, or filtering through, those who remain in the city.
The BBC has not been able to independently verify the official's claims.
Russia claims to have control of most of the city, with Ukrainian defenders reportedly contained to a sprawling industrial area called the Azovstal steelworks. Russian officials offered to spare the lives of those troops if they surrendered on Sunday - an offer which was ignored.
Ukraine's prime minister says the soldiers there will "fight till the end".
5:53
Macron invited to see Russian atrocities first-hand - Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with CNN that he has invited French President Emmanuel Macron to visit Ukraine to see for himself that Russian forces had committed “genocide.”Macron has been reluctant to use the word genocide, stating earlier that he was "not sure that an escalation of rhetoric serves that cause".
"I invited him to come when he will have the opportunity. He'll come and see, and I am sure he will understand," said Zelensky.
Zelensky has previously said that Macron’s reluctance to use the term was “very painful for us.”
The United States, which has historically been reluctant to accuse states of genocide, last week accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing acts of genocide by trying to "wipe out the idea" of a Ukrainian identity.
The UN Genocide Convention, of which the US is a signatory, requires countries to intervene once genocide is formally identified.
6:24
The elderly who can't flee their Ukrainian homes
The southern port city of Mykolaiv was one of the first places Russian forces attacked in February.
Intense shelling in the city has forced many residents to flee, but some of the city’s elderly population has been left to fend for themselves.
The BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga went to the neighbourhood of Kulbakino, to meet those left behind.
Video content
Video caption: The elderly who can't flee their Ukrainian homes.
An older lady speaking: We were told if you hear a siren, you should go to the basement to hide.
But we don't know if this will save us, or if we will die here.
Photos showing that the city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, has been shelled heavily. They show apartment blocks, inside and outside.
Comment: Many residents have fled, but some elderly people remain.
Reporter: This bunker is the last place of refuge for so many of those left behind, and that's usually the elderly.
It's damp and dark; they have to use these buckets as toilets, and over here is where they sleep.
At the start of the war there were over 20 families here, but now it's just four women.
video shows the 4 ladies in the bunker, and later a cat with them.
Anastasia, Ludmilla, Nina and Galina keep each other company through the difficulty and loneliness of this war.
They go out to try and find food and water, but the air raid sirens go off so often they spend most of their day in darkness.
Galina: My heart hurts, I have hypertension and diabetes. I can't stay here for a long time as my legs hurt, I need to walk a lot, but I can't.
I need to have a good diet, but it's impossible now.
This is one of Galina's last tablets, she has enough for three weeks, but after that she's not sure what will happen.
On board the train taking injured Ukrainians west
Tom Bateman
Reporting from Dnipro
Injured people on board a train in Dnipro
Copyright: BBC
I’ve been hearing the accounts of badly wounded civilians from war in the Donbas region as they are evacuated by train to the west of Ukraine.
Twelve-year-old Katia is carried on board on a stretcher. Her mum was killed in last week’s missile attack on Kramatorsk station, which left Katia badly injured and needing further hospital treatment. She tells me the scene of the blast was “like a nightmare”. She grieves for her mother and leaves without her father, who is staying behind in the east.
Another family waiting nearby has also had a devastating loss. Tanya explains that her eldest daughter Marina was killed a few days ago. It happened in a car crash during the rush to evacuate as the outskirts of her town were under heavy bombardment.
She says she was trying to get her family to a safe place. One of her younger children has a fractured skull.
“I’m scared for my children,” says Tanya. “I’m very sorry for the price I had to pay for leaving my own home. We didn’t want to go.”
Platform one is filled with stretchers as patients are carried on board. Staff from the medical charity MSF who have organised the evacuation load people onto specially modified trains. The evacuation involves a gruelling 20-hour journey west to Lviv along lines which have already faced attack.
In Soviet-era carriages they flee Russia’s advance, helping free up hospital space in the east where fears grow of a major assault.
Child with facial injuries is escorted by medical personnel
Copyright: BBC
This child arrived at the station ready to be evacuated to the west
4:33
Luhansk residents urged to evacuate immediately: Report
Residents of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine have been urged to evacuate immediately, according to a report by Ukrainian news agency UNIAN.
"Next week may be difficult. [This] may be the last time we still have a chance to save you," the head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai was quoted as saying.
Russian forces have trained their focused on capturing Luhansk and Donetsk which are part of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, an old coal and steel-producing area.
Putin had recognised the entirety of the two eastern regions as independent of Ukraine just before the war.
Ukraine's armed forces have been preparing themselves for a brutal Russian offensive in this region.
5:11
Official alleges Russia planning to restrict movement within Mariupol
An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol says that Russian troops are issuing "movement passes" to those who remain in the city.
Petro Andriushchenko - who is not currently in the city but shares information on the ground - made the allegation via Telegram on Sunday, sharing a photo that appears to show people lining up.
"Hundreds of citizens have to stand in line to get a pass, without which next week it will be impossible not only to move between districts of the city, but also to be on the streets," he wrote.
Andriushchenko suggested that occupying forces were probably gathering information on, or filtering through, those who remain in the city.
The BBC has not been able to independently verify the official's claims.
Russia claims to have control of most of the city, with Ukrainian defenders reportedly contained to a sprawling industrial area called the Azovstal steelworks. Russian officials offered to spare the lives of those troops if they surrendered on Sunday - an offer which was ignored.
Ukraine's prime minister says the soldiers there will "fight till the end".
5:53
Macron invited to see Russian atrocities first-hand - Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with CNN that he has invited French President Emmanuel Macron to visit Ukraine to see for himself that Russian forces had committed “genocide.”Macron has been reluctant to use the word genocide, stating earlier that he was "not sure that an escalation of rhetoric serves that cause".
"I invited him to come when he will have the opportunity. He'll come and see, and I am sure he will understand," said Zelensky.
Zelensky has previously said that Macron’s reluctance to use the term was “very painful for us.”
The United States, which has historically been reluctant to accuse states of genocide, last week accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing acts of genocide by trying to "wipe out the idea" of a Ukrainian identity.
The UN Genocide Convention, of which the US is a signatory, requires countries to intervene once genocide is formally identified.
6:24
The elderly who can't flee their Ukrainian homes
The southern port city of Mykolaiv was one of the first places Russian forces attacked in February.
Intense shelling in the city has forced many residents to flee, but some of the city’s elderly population has been left to fend for themselves.
The BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga went to the neighbourhood of Kulbakino, to meet those left behind.
Video content
Video caption: The elderly who can't flee their Ukrainian homes.
An older lady speaking: We were told if you hear a siren, you should go to the basement to hide.
But we don't know if this will save us, or if we will die here.
Photos showing that the city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, has been shelled heavily. They show apartment blocks, inside and outside.
Comment: Many residents have fled, but some elderly people remain.
Reporter: This bunker is the last place of refuge for so many of those left behind, and that's usually the elderly.
It's damp and dark; they have to use these buckets as toilets, and over here is where they sleep.
At the start of the war there were over 20 families here, but now it's just four women.
video shows the 4 ladies in the bunker, and later a cat with them.
Anastasia, Ludmilla, Nina and Galina keep each other company through the difficulty and loneliness of this war.
They go out to try and find food and water, but the air raid sirens go off so often they spend most of their day in darkness.
Galina: My heart hurts, I have hypertension and diabetes. I can't stay here for a long time as my legs hurt, I need to walk a lot, but I can't.
I need to have a good diet, but it's impossible now.
This is one of Galina's last tablets, she has enough for three weeks, but after that she's not sure what will happen.
