nightmare and living hell for people who stayed there. the shootings are on the ground continued but the more intense it becomes, the more confident we are getting that this will end soon and we ll end victoriously. i was going to ask you about that. are you hearing stories or accounts, are you talking to people who are telling you about how your country fellowmen are sta standing up to the ugsrussians. people who remain in kyiv and scattered across the rest of ukraine, none of the people we have known have fled abroad but whatever these people are, none of them has any doubts or shaken
without much regard for the civilians who live there. according to the u.n., there have been 406 reported civilian casualties in ukraine with more than 100 civilians killed in the past few days. the sense of impending danger is underscored by video like this, satellite images of a massive convoy of russian vehicles now on the outskirts of kyiv and according to a new estimate, much larger than it was earlier today. ukraine s president zelenskyy spoke to the country again tonight offering an update on the this morning s peace talks and issuing a warning about russian tactics. translator: today with the russian side s initiative, we had the first round of negotiations between russia and ukraine. these negotiations took place with the shelling and bombing of our territory on the background. shelling of our cities. synchronization of the shelling with the negotiations was obvious. i think that with this simple-minded method, russia is
of course, she sayings. if russian forces push into the capital in kyiv, what will you do? translator: we will beat them, they won t come, she tells us. i believe in our ukraine. i believe in ukrainian people. moments later, she s off. russian forces are still moving forward. and there is much work to be done. and i m joined again by clarissa ward. it s really remarkable the spirit of people here in the face of this overwhelming adversary. reporter: yeah, i mean, it s honestly, it s sort of jaw dropping because there is such a david and goliath dynamic to this whole conflict in terms of the power of russian military. it s one of the mightiest military powers in the world, and the ukrainians also have incredibly brave soldiers. they have certain weapons that they ve been given, but it s not a fair fight. right? it s not a fair match, and yet
playing out in a major m metropolis like kyiv. we are in a central area here, this is not on the far out skirts of town. you can imagine how terrifying it was for the people who were sleeping or just wake up, having their breakfast with their families on a saturday morning and hit in this attack. thanks clarissa for that. more russian fighting vehicles moving in today. cnn s fred pleitgen right across the ukrainian town of kharkiv. are you picking up on any of that yourself?
continue to defend itself. what are you hearing, ambassador, from your leadership, the government in ke kyiv, the ukrainian leadership about the current battle? there are reports about heavy assaults in eastern kyiv. it is a small town suburb of kyiv. also sounds in kyiv and will have more information later on as the situation is evolving but not something new. the war, the full fledged war that russia started in ukraine going on for three days and we see that they target not only military as they lie publicly on the russian tv and many civilians, hospitals, orphanages, just simple apartment buildings. it is horrifying. president zelenskyy, your president, said ukrainians will