Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in London.

I'm Tim Franks. We've got a remarkable couple of voices to bring you, two voices which are a repost to the sort of language that's become a bit of a cliche when we talk about the war in Ukraine, the stuff about

it grinding on, about a war of attrition, about front lines only slowly changing. Because what happened

on Sunday morning in Sumi in the northeast of Ukraine smashed through that tired imagery. As families

headed to church or to a show at a theatre or

just went for a stroll on a sunny spring day, two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into the

centre of the city. At least 34 people were killed, more than 100 were injured, including many

women and children.

The two people you'll hear from in a moment were caught in the chaos and the terror.

Before them, we'll hear from our reporter at the scene, and also this from President Vladimir Zelensky,

saying Donald Trump should visit Ukraine and see for himself the destruction and death Russia is wreaking.

We want you to come and I think to come and to see.

You think you understand what's going on here.

Okay, we respect your position.

You understand. But please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of formats of negotiations, come to see people,

civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children, destroyed or dead, come. Look, and then let's move with the plan how to finish

the war.

Vladimir Zelensky appealing directly to Donald Trump on the US television network CBS.

And what of Summi itself?

This city hit by these high speed, immensely destructive Russian missiles.

Here's our Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse.

We're just approaching the second of two quite robust checkpoints outside the city of Sumi.

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