they moved us into the woods but they did not shoot us like the russian soldiers are shooting now, killing children. >> reporter: the kremlin claims its forces don't target civilian areas, but the u.s., nato and the ukrainians say the russians are frustrated by their lack of progress and are firing longer range weapons because they can't make headway on the ground. >> translator: i understand that sooner or later our troops will push them out of our territory. now the russians are doing dirty tricks. they shoot more at civilian areas than positions of the ukrainian army. >> reporter: ukraine's army says it's pressing its own counter offensive trying to dislodge russian troops from the outskirts of kyiv. the kremlin's forces, meanwhile, so far unable to take the ukrainian capital are instead laying waste to its suburbs. and, jake, that was really the story of the day today. we heard explosions, air raid