This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Thursday the 29th of May, these are our main stories.
Russia intensifies its assault on eastern Ukraine, making big advances in Donetsk.
The World Food Programme says hordes of hungry people have broken into one of its warehouses in central Gaza,
with reports of deaths and several injuries.
We look back at the life of the renowned Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o,
who's died at the age of 87.
Also in this podcast...
It was a Sherpa informing me that that bit of kit which we got up there,
which I was so close to giving up because it was arduous, had saved a young French lady's life.
Getting defibrillators to Mount Everest and the museum that lets you order items from its archive.
Let's begin with a special report from the front line in eastern Ukraine,
where Russia has been intensifying its assaults and made the most significant advances
since January.
President Zelensky has warned that Russia is gathering 50,000 troops across the border from the Ukrainian city of Sumy.
Here's my colleague, Yogatilla Mai.
We're in the town of Rudinsky, which is just north of the embattled city of Pokrovsk.
What I can see in front of me is just large-scale destruction,
multiple buildings which have been destroyed.
And from the pits, smoke is still rising up, so something's still burning in there.