The city of Mariupol made a second unsuccessful attempt on Sunday to evacuate people from the attacking Russian army and bombing.
The first attempt to open a "humanitarian corridor" failed.
The Russians continued to fire, the British secret service believes that the promise of a ceasefire was just a ploy on the part of the Russian side to regroup the troops.
What is happening is not difficult to assess.
Because where there are no journalists, people document their fate themselves. They film the attacks, show the destruction caused by the bombs and distribute the videos online.
The report “Under Fire – War Diary Ukraine” shows how this creates a picture of the cruel war that Putin is waging.
For this, NDR journalists from "Panorama die Reporter" and "STRG_F" have put together the reports of Astha, Oleksandra, Juljia and Dimitri, who record what is happening to them and around them day by day.
Astha lives in Kharkiv, doesn't dare leave her apartment, the blocks of houses in her neighborhood are being shot at.
At great risk, she manages to escape alone.
Oleksandra and Juljia flee Kyiv, also at risk of their lives.
Oleksandra is over the moon that she saved her budgie and cat.
Like Juljia, she will remain in Lviv in western Ukraine for the time being.
Juljia got a marriage proposal from her boyfriend.
She wants to marry him, who has to go to the front, when the war is over.
Dimitri, on the other hand, drove in the opposite direction, to Kyiv.
He has joined a militia and is preparing for house warfare.
attacks on civilians
The fate of four young people stands for that of everyone in Ukraine, where, according to British intelligence, the Russian army has started targeting cities and residential areas, i.e. unarmed civilians.
This type of terror war is known from Chechnya and Syria.
The Russians and the whole world should not see or hear anything about any of this.
With the new anti-media law, Putin not only penalizes the work of journalists, he also forbids speaking freely.
He wants to wage total war to the exclusion of the public.
His propagandists from the RT station swarm out and tell tales of peace where brutal war is raging.
There are no more Russian media that report freely, demonstrators and dissidents are being arrested, and foreign media have had to shut down.
Anyone who raises their voice will be silenced.
With this totalitarian approach, Putin is once again showing himself to be yesterday's despot.
The whole world has long seen what kind of war he is waging.
And she won't forget it.
Courageous reporters go on reporting, courageous citizens do it too.
Putin's crimes are already documented.