situation incredibly dangerous for them? ti2 situation remains extremely tense. we are in the middle of an international conflict, with sporadic skirmishes happening in some places, heavy bombardment and others, we have seen the image so we know that to ensure the ceasefire takes place, it takes not only willingness part also the mechanism and coordination to ensure that all those given in the capital reach to all checkpoints and that is why it needs preparation, time and when the next operation takes place, it will require many days for people to get out of mariupol and just not 24 hour is over 48 hours, so the more operation we can have, that can last many days, the better, and we will continue to do everything we can to reach mariupol. you continue to do everything we can to reach mariupol. continue to do everything we can to reach mariupol. you say there was an attem -t reach mariupol. you say there was an attempt for reach mariupol. you say there was an attempt for many reach
positive evacuate into cities. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said expected to reach mariupol later today. according to the u.n. nearly 2.7 million refugees fled ukraine since the invasion began with more than half flooding into poland. we begin our coverage with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, who s in lviv in western ukraine. molly, you re miles away from the military base the russians blew up in an air strike this morning. is there a sense of looming danger as russians advance west? reporter: jonathan the fear the last two and a half weeks. right? the war would march more westward. this is the safe haven for people coming from the east and the itty is packed full. when we spoke last week, jonathan, a lot of people. 200,000 additional people and residents in the city. a week later the numbers is hundreds and hundreds of
to reach mariupol has been forced to turn back, because of today s attacks. as the fighting continues, the first top level talks between russia and ukraine since the invasion began have made no progress towards agreeing a ceasefire. this is the latest map showing the presence of russian troops in red with forces gathering around the capital kyiv. the bombing has intensified in mariupol, while in kyiv the city s mayor says half the city s population has fled. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet can tell us more. yes, kyiv is no different from so many cities and towns across this country, in fact the whole country where now ukraine is causing the fastest growing refugee crisis since the second world war. we do know, and we ve reported since the start of this invasion, how people have taken their basements, bomb shelters, metro stations, but the longer this goes on and as ukrainians in the capital see what is happening elsewhere, it s not surprising they want to flee.
these drone pictures show how widespread the damage is. notjust one apartment block, one street entire neighbourhoods are being flattened. it looks like it goes on for miles. imagine living here, running out of food, water, medicine or heating. getting aid in is proving immensely difficult. a convoy of 100 tonnes of supplies is stuck in berdyansk unable to reach mariupol. so close, 40 miles. but the pictures that are getting most attention worldwide today are not pictures of war damage. on the main evening news on russian tv last night a journalist ran onto the set with a sign,
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