This time last week, the city of Kiev was a bustling European capital, but a lot's happened since then.

There is no life in Kiev, there is just a lot of Russian occupants say come from tanks and there is terrible.

Hundreds and hundreds of people here in Tnipro who have come to the centre of town

and they are in the process of making Molotov cocktails.

I am here in order to protect my family, my country, my people.

In less than a week, the world has changed.

We call it the Ministry of Government and the beginning of the General Assembly.

Yesterday, President Putin put his country's nuclear forces on high alert.

In Ukraine, people have rallied around the President, who in the course of a week has transformed into an inspirational wartime leader.

But for the Vladimir Zelensky, that's come at a price.

The enemy who's marked me down as number one target, my family is the number two target.

They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state.

And today, we have new revelations about the plot to kill the President of Ukraine.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manvina Rana.

Today, the Russian mercenaries stalking President Zelensky.

Yesterday, after a dramatic night in Kiev, I got in touch with one of the brilliant team of journalists

the Times has on the ground to find out how things were in the Capitol.

My name's Catherine Felp, the diplomatic correspondent for the Times.

Catherine, firstly, just how and where are you?

I'm in a different location to the one that I've previously spoken to you from.

I moved a couple of days ago into a location that we thought was probably a bit better provisioned for what lies ahead.

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