in kyiv, on bankova, not hiding - and i m not afraid of anyone as long as needed to win this war, our national war. the fighting very much continues in this war. 0il depots burn in zhytomyr further west after being struck. the russian advance continues in the south as well. the port city of mykolaiv next in their sights. 2 million ukrainians have now been forced to leave their country, according to the un. here refugees crossed the danube river into romania. one thing the unhcr will support with is to set reception centres. a challenge is that, given the ongoing conflict and hostilities, a lot of the supply chains have been broken so we are dependent on a lot of the aid coming in from abroad, across the border here with poland, so that we have the resources to set it up. the numbers of people escaping this war will keep going up.
apartment complexes have been hit in kyiv over the last 24 hours. more and more pictures we are seeing like this, civilians suffering. we re also awaiting an extraordinary summit of sorts from the leaders of three key nato nations. we re talking about poland, the czech republic and slovenia. they re all headed to kyiv at this moment to meet with ukrainian leader president zelenskyy there in the capital. a city under siege. clearly a huge risk in that. meantime, in southern ukraine, we have seen relentless attacks on this key port city of mykolaiv in the south, an effort by the russians to take over that key strategic port. cnn s nick paton walsh, we want to warn you, some of this video is graphic. reporter: we have seen during the night behind me the sky occasionally light up from the continued rocket fires that go back and forth between the two sides here as russia, it seems, is trying to move to the north
hospital homes and families in the strategic port city of mykolaiv. among those spared, these women and children must cram beneath a derelict market inside a basement turned bomb shelter. two weeks ago they were paying hide-and-seek, now they re hiding from cluster bombs says the mayor, oleksandr senkevych. attacking civilians, is this on purpose? i think the main idea is to kill ukrainians as much as they can. it s complete liar when they say that they want to protect us. they want to kill as much as they can. reporter: kill and sometimes capture. this security camera footage in the top right corner is said to show the moment russian soldiers apprehend the mayor of the occupied city of melitopol, putting a bag over his head in broad daylight. to the outrage of his city. in this information war, russia