Hello, it's Manveen. Today's podcast is presented by my colleague Louise Callahan, foreign

correspondent at the Sunday Times. For the past few weeks Louise has been in Ukraine

covering the war. And in today's episode we go back to one moment early on in the invasion

when she visited a children's hospital. And just a warning, some listeners may find this

distressing.

Over the last few weeks we've watched in horror as more Ukrainians have been killed every

day by Russian attacks. I've been on the ground for the last month covering the war in Ukraine

since the invasion started. I'm now back in Istanbul in Turkey, where I'm based for

the Sunday Times. Last Wednesday, when I was in a maternity hospital in the southern

city of Mikolayev interviewing doctors and patients, another maternity hospital in a place

called Mariupol was bombed. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned an apparent Russian

air strike on a children's hospital in the besiege Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Ukraine's

president said that children are trapped under the rubble. Images of a pregnant woman being

stretched through the rubble were on the front pages of newspapers around the world. On Monday,

journalists in Mariupol said that she and her baby had been killed. It wasn't only the hospital

in Mariupol that was hit. The World Health Organization says there have been at least 24

attacks on health care facilities and five on ambulances, killing at least a dozen people

and injuring 34. It's because of this that in this episode we're going back towards the start

of the war, to one specific day when I went to a children's hospital in Kiev.

So in air raid sirens just gone off, we're going to go try and find a shelter now.

It was four days into Russia's invasion, February the 28th. I'd been based in the capital

in the period leading to the outbreak of the war. So we're just leaving the train station when

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