This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Thursday the 29th of May, these are our main stories.

Russia intensifies its assault on eastern Ukraine, making big advances in Donetsk.

The World Food Program says hordes of hungry people have broken into one of its warehouses in central

Gaza with reports of deaths and several injuries. We look back at the life of the renowned Kenyan

author from Gugi Watiyonga, who's died at the age of 87. Also in this podcast, it was a

Sherpa informing me that that bit of kit which we got up there, which I have so close to giving up because it was arduous, had saved a young French lady's life.

Getting defibrillators to Mount Everest and the museum that lets you order items from its archive.

Let's begin with a special report from the frontline in eastern Ukraine,

where Russia has been intensifying its assaults

and made the most significant advances since January.

President Zelensky has warned that Russia is gathering 50,000 troops

across the border from the Ukrainian city of Sumi. Here's my colleague

Yogatilamai. We're in the town of Rudinsky, which is just north of the embattled city of

Pukrovsk. What I can see in front of me is just large-scale destruction, multiple buildings

which have been destroyed, and from from the pits smoke is still rising up

so something's still burning in there

we know there was a large attack

about 24 hours ago

I'm not sure if you can hear it

but we can hear the continuous sound of bombardment

there's another bomb that's gone off right now

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