says. and i want the war to end quickly. reporter: her parents appear haunted. clearly traumatized. tanya gets a call from her mother in mariupol, weeping, and saying goodbye. because she fears she will not survive the night. now wolf, the local government says more than 3,000 people managed to escape from mariupol today. it is a dangerous journey. officials also say, at least two children are in critical condition from two separate incidents where their fleeing cars were struck by incoming fire. we do not know how many civilians remain cowering in their basements. in ravaged city. a horrible situation. ivan watson reporting for us. thank you. let s go outthere.
hour ago said he, himself, helped dig a grave for three of his neighbors who were killed by a russian shell in front of his eyes, and he planted a cross with two sticks in the courtyard of their building for that grave. back to you, jake. ivan, thank you so much. i want to go to an exclusive fareed zakaria just spoke with ukrainian president soelds. what did he have to say? it was a sober interview. he was trying his best to hold out the prospect of negotiation while acknowledging the terrible tragedy and the loss. he talked a lot about the children who were dying and the way that weighs on him. but at the same time, as you mentioned, jake, he s calling for negotiations. i asked him very specifically, given what has happened, given what russian forces have done,
some military experts including an assessment by the institute for the city of war says the war has reached a stalemate. also russia says it s turning to unprecedented weapons in the battle claiming saturday it used hyper chronic cruise missiles which, if true, would be the first time a hypersonic weapon has been used in combat. let s go straight to cnn international correspondent ivan watson at an arcade turned to an refugee center in dnipro, ukraine. we re seeing russian forces trargting civilians south of where you are. reporter: that s true. the people who have taken shelter here in this improvised arcade, laser tag center, they recently escaped, just days ago from the russian siege of mariupol describing to me living day and night in the basements of their building with the constant bombardment coming from russian air strikes, artillery, rockets. we re now starting to hear
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without debilitating injuries. she has difficult psychological status, different sounds. reporter: her mother has a message for the soldiers who shot her daughter. translator: go back home. why are they here? they are mercenaries who don t care about us, don t care about the situation in this country or this war. they don t care who they are shooting at. reporter: as for milyena, she shows photos of her cats and looks forward to one day going back to doing gymnastics. ivan watson, cnn, zaporizhzhia, ukraine. so many families like her s still in ukraine, saying 3.7 million people have left the country, more than half a million escaping to nearby romania, miguel joining us now, united states says they ll allow 100,000 ukrainian refugees into the to u.s., i know you spoke to