Hello and welcome to NewsAv from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London.

I'm James Menendez.

And we're going to begin in Ukraine because for the first time, a leading political figure there has said publicly that the country might have to recognize Russia's control of Crimea and parts of four other eastern and southern regions,

if there's to be a truce with Russia.

That's certainly what Trump administration officials have been suggesting as the outline of a possible peace agreement.

Well, it was Vitaly Klitschko, the mayor of Kiev, who made the comments in an interview with

my colleague Anna Foster.

And that came in the wake of one of the worst Russian attacks on the Capitol for months,

as we reported yesterday.

Twelve people in all were killed and more than a hundred injured in a barrage of Russian missiles and drones.

Well, we'll hear what Vitale Klitsko had to say in a moment.

But first, Anna's been down to the scene of the attack.

The sound of that recovery operation that's going on now,

it tells you everything you really need to know about the scene here,

the collapsed building, the clouds of dust that are rising into the sky.

But actually, what I wanted to describe to you was something different.

And it's the human aspect of this because there was a school just here.

And actually one of the pupils, their body's just been brought out by the recovery teams.

And there's a crowd of teenagers.

And obviously it was their classmate.

They knew them.

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