humanitarian corridors. the u.n. says nearly 2.7 million people have fled ukraine since february 24th. let's begin this hour with nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley who is live on the ground in ukraine. matt, thank you for being here. paint a picture of what's happening on the ground for us. what's happened behind you? >> reporter: yeah, jonathan, what we're seeing here, this is the city, we're a little west of the capital of kyiv. right here, about a week ago, there were a couple of projectiles that fell right here, as many as at least three civilians were killed. jonathan, we've been in this city the past two days. one of the things we keep asking people, why is this place being targeted? why are so many civilian targets taking the brunt of this war? as you can see here, really is devastating. these are all residential buildings. they're homes. one of the words we keep hearing from people here is that this is