reporter: this is what the slow route of russia in southern ukraine looks like, kyiv s forces are pushing close to kherson, the first city the kremlin took. here so many people being evacuated day by day, and the area quiet in contrust to these impacts we see all around in the fields, just constant barrage over the past days. the bus is the last way out. the village has been ukraine s last position for days, so this is what russia left of it. the noise is the village gas main leaking furiously. putin s war of annihilation was sure not to overlook this school, its front torn off by a
of lives across this country. if you can, just reflect for a moment on what s happening in that city. well, thank you for having me. i m now in kyiv and i was traveling around the country. the country actually changed a lot, of course, the checkpoints, with guns, the city is a fortress right now. mariupol is suffering the biggest today. however, i would like to say that the latest is also coming from my native town, hometown kherson. this is the occupied territory and people go out to protest against russian occupation. russians started shooting already. there are several wounded. we don t know how many people, but russia tries just shooting people there. the feeling in this country, i m sorry to say every day you have
missile. it is hard to imagine life returning here even when the shelling stops, which just now it does not. we run-down for cover. the marines here are mobile, pushing forwards where they can. kherson s nearby airport, their prize. a former lebanese soldier working in tv married to a ukrainian. two weeks ago this place had life and now nothing. reporter: the bus has filled with anyone left who wants to leave, anyone who can move themselves. we are asked to take those who cannot. and who remember the last time
people. so far 130 have been reported to have survived. and we re just learning about an attack on a care home in eastern ukraine. it happened nine days ago. the head of the luhansk region says 56 elderly residents were killed when a russian tank opened fire. cnn has not been able to independently verify that claim. some of the repeat fighting has been around kherson. they re pushing out the attack to surrounding villages in the drive to try and seize mykolaiv. and that is a crucial city in russia s quest to control ukraine s southern region. and of course it s important port cities. ukrainian forces have held the russians back so far, but as nick paten walsh reports, they haven t been able to limit the destruction of russia s relentless missile strikes and of course the shelling. a warning, some of the images you re about to see are graphic.
rush russians took her hometown kherson, where her children are. he can t hear the blast at his age but sent his wife to live with his daughter in the city. he has stayed to protect whatever they have left. shelling hits the road out again. and we drive past the earth putin s shells have happily scorched as his army slowly loses. whatever ground here it gained, ukraine s guns pushing them back. but moskow imposes a cost. these barracks torn in two reduced to rubble by missile strikes that killed dozens of ukrainian soldiers some as they slept friday morning in one of the worst known losses of the