![]() Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes the West will "splinter" as his invasion of Ukraine wages on, US President Joe Biden has warned. They need to be treated as human beings." All of our prisoners of war need to be released. "We need peace in Ukraine, we need peace across the world. ![]() His grandmother, Pamela Hall, addressed the crowd, saying: "I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for taking the trouble to come here and show support for my grandson. Mr Aslin's fiancee Diana Okovyta joined his parents, Ang and Andrew Wood, brother Nathan Wood and sister Shannon Tinegate at the rally in Nottingham. The Russian proxy court claimed that they were "mercenaries". Mr Aslin was captured along with Shaun Pinner, 48, from Bedfordshire in April.īoth British men have Ukrainian partners and had been living in Ukraine and serving with the country's armed forces since before the Russian invasion. The Ukrainian fiancee of a British man facing a death sentence in Donetsk has joined a demonstration in Nottingham calling for his release.Īiden Aslin, 28, originally from Newark in Nottinghamshire, was sentenced to death earlier this month by a court that is not internationally recognised in the Russian occupied region. People live with the constant fear of an attack, knowing their fragile sense of normality can be shattered in an instant. But there's an anxiety beneath the humdrum of the city. People are back at work, back in their homes, taking walks in parks. It's perhaps no coincidence this latest attack comes as G7 leaders gather in Germany.Ī rhythm of daily life has resumed in Kyiv in recent weeks. A burnt-out apartment block next door to the one that was destroyed this morning was bombed in April when the UN Secretary General was visiting Kyiv. It's not the first time civilians have been hit here. This military target has made the area particularly vulnerable. The sites of both explosions are close to a warehouse that it's believed is being used as a weapons depot. ![]() Mercifully, it's a Sunday and no children were there. The shattered windows framed by colourful murals. A crater smoulders next to a slide and children's chairs. Nearby, a missile has also hit a kindergarten playground. We haven't been able to independently confirm this. Mr Geraschenko says the woman's husband is believed to have died and their young daughter has been taken to hospital. "Russia is targeting their own people," he tells us. The first information we receive is from a senior adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs who arrives at the scene.Īnton Geraschenko is holding the passport of a Russian woman he says has been taken to hospital. Debris crashes from the building as rescuers search for residents in the rubble of their apartments. Tired firefighters are covered in soot and some appear burned. We didn't have to travel far.Īround two minutes drive from the heart of the city, we saw a destroyed apartment block.Ī woman is being ushered away crying by the police.Īnother is rushed into an ambulance on a stretcher. We drove west towards the scene and followed the smoke rising into the air. Living in constant fear, she describes her terror as cruise missiles hit her neighbourhood early this morning.Īround 6.30am I heard at least three loud bangs from our hotel in the centre of the city. "This is my life," says Larysa Liaskovska as she shows us the blown out windows in her apartment.
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