The United Nations overwhelmingly voted to denounce the Russian invasion
of Ukraine today as the now week long war grinds on in the north,
the east and the south of Ukraine.
Meantime, the U. N also reported that as of now, more than 800,000
Ukrainians have fled for surrounding nations after refusing comment
for days. The Russians today said nearly 500 of their troops have
been killed and been 5 1500 have been wounded.
Those numbers are believed to be actually much higher. Meantime,
prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have formally opened
an investigation into possible war crimes committed in Ukraine.
And after Vladimir Putin raised Russia's nuclear alert level on Sunday,
the US said today that it would cancel the test of a nuclear capable
ballistic missile in the interest of not raising tensions further.
Nick Schifrin is in the city of La Vive in western Ukraine, and he
begins our cover.
Today in Ukraine's second largest city, the brutal bombardments of
Russia's unrestricted warfare.
The Russian rocket Gotthard Kids. Police and intelligence headquarters
also damaged Karasin University, one of the first universities in
the Russian empire, destroying a part of Russian heritage that Moscow
is claiming to protect.
Nearby, a cruise missile hit. Harkins City Hall
volunteer filmed just before impact.
And despite promises to only target the military, Russian strikes
demolished residential buildings, residents salvaged what they could
care.
After the bombing. Another resident filmed the damage inside his
apartment by city destroyed too much. People suffered all the time
we sit in the basement.
High teens. 37 year old Daria Grigoryeva is from Kharkiv. Yesterday
morning, She and her family braved a gauntlet of attacks and fled
the city
going to feel myself safe now.
Because my hard steel
feels like jumped out the chest. But despite her and her husband's
trauma they're trying to protect and shield their Children.
How are your Children doing? They said that it is very scary. Accused
that could hear this sounds for a long time. They start crying. We
tried to keep them safe. All the child. We
Didn't allow them to come close to windows. When your Children ask
you what was going on? What did you tell them? I just said that it
is not safe to stay, You know was city anymore to say that it is
a war. I'm not ready to say it.
And I don't want them to know it. I want them to be safe. And I want
them to staying. Ah, human, you know.
I want them to believe their war are exist only in games, but it's
not.
Outside key, there's suburbs that are burning. The targets have included
homes and playgrounds
and in the city center, women and Children shelter inside subway
stations. Maternity hospitals have moved their operations underground.
Others tried to flee the city over a bridge the Ukrainian military
destroyed to halt oncoming Russian tanks.
According to a British assessment. Russia now controls territory
in red in the north, northeast and southeast and his advancing toward
Kiev in the north Mariupol in the southeast, and we live in the south.
Russian soldiers also surround five cities and are expected to further
advance in three separate areas. But the US and Ukraine, Russia's
struggling with basic logistics,
Soldiers who don't have enough food ransacked a convenience store
for anything to eat. US. Officials say. The giant convoy in your
key is also struggling to get enough fuel, the Ukrainian president
Vladimir Zelensky warned. Today. There are miles to go before they
sleep. Time will come when we will be able to sleep.
But it will be after the war after the victory. Today you Ukrainians
are a symbol of invincibility, a symbol that people in any country
can become The best people on earth at any moment,
literally a bomb shelter.
And so you thought this would be the safest place to be? Yes, 28
year old Oleg Boyko Nevsky is not hiding beneath the Soviet era factory.
He's doing what he can to help fight the war, volunteering to receive
donations from Ukrainians and other Europeans and ship it to families
near the front.
Why does everyone want to help? Why is it important for you? It seems
for every Ukrainian to pitch in because it's our land.
The out fine here.
It's
Ah, already city years from the end of Soviet Union and
Now we are raising as a
Nation as a country. Are you afraid? No. I met mad, angry and I want
to finish it. But I want to save as many lives as we can to save
lives. They take medicine.
Bags of clothes and replacement prized possessions for traumatized
Children.
They make the long journey east by car or if the roads are blocked
by Russian soldiers by train. Rostislav Radish engineered this effort
with his phone. He launched this telegram chat last week. Today it
has more than 22,000 members. Digital resistance where previous Ukrainian
efforts failed.
In 1932, the Soviet Union forced to famine on Ukraine that killed
millions. It's not a new war for us because of
Um, imperious age. Russians
also wanted to kill everybody in Ukraine. But in previous age, we
didn't have a big and good communication between Ukrainians, and
it was harder than it is at this moment.
Now when we can send messages
Ah, And now when we can be united, we will.
Wins this war.
I
I know it for sure, because we are on our land and
Everyone is fighting for our country, not only soldiers, it's 48
million people.
That want to live on this land and want to be free.
Today. President Talansky referred to an attack yesterday that damaged
the memorial to the tens of thousands of Jews killed in the single
largest Nazi massacre of World War two and said today's Russian government
wants to quote erase our history erased our country to race us all.
In the face of existential threats. Ukrainians are trying to maintain
the resilience. Daria, the woman we spoke to earlier who fled Hark
Eve says she wants to return to her city to help rebuild it.
Judy. She admitted she didn't know when or if that would be possible.
So moving these stories and Nick Schifrin reporting for us live tonight