This is the Guardian.

Today, in big cities and smaller towns,

the Ukrainians who are carrying on with their daily lives,

even as their home has been turned into a war zone.

In a theatre, in Maruapal, a city in South Ukraine, about a thousand people were sheltering

for their lives on Wednesday, when the bombs fell.

Russian bombs that destroyed the city swimming pool too, that killed nobody knows yet exactly how

many people. But there were families there, there were children.

Hundreds of people were hiding there from shelling, the building is destroyed.

It is heartbreaking what Russia is doing to our people.

In Maruapal, we are in our Donetsk region.

Your blockade of Maruapal is different from the blockade of the Second World War.

Throughout Ukraine, those who remained and survived the first few weeks of war

are trying to carry on living as best they can, through almost constant air-raid sirens

and a feeling of danger. And for an episode last week, I spoke to a woman called Katia.

She is one of the millions of Ukrainians who fled their country.

She told me she'd left her mum, Larisa, behind, but that she hoped to be back in Ukraine in time

to celebrate her mum's birthday. Katia is in the UK now, but Larisa is still in Ukraine.

I called her earlier this week.

Larisa, your daughter Katia said that it was your birthday on 15th March.

So firstly, happy birthday and can I ask how did you spend the day?

Well, thank you Katia sent me a bunch of pink tulips.

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