which is the capture of this city and the decapitation of the administration. things are getting tougher by the day for the russians but it is ukrainian civilians that seem to be paying the price, wolf. i understand you have some reporting about some of the most vulnerable who are still in this war zone, babies who were born to surrogate mothers. what are you learning? reporter: well, this is an extraordinary situation. but it is a kind of product of a war and of course the product of the encirclement, or the attempt by the russians to continue with their encirclement. they are now upping the level of attacks in the east and north east of the city. and nato sources in the united states and united kingdom and analysts saying they believe that russians have taken a bit of a tactical pull and may try to encircle the city entirely and this means that we come across a clinic and a nursery in
in any case. people around the world have seen images of the 21 surrogate babies being cared for in a kyiv bomb shelter. a top eu official is now calling for their evacuation as their intended parents can t travel to ukraine during the russian invasion. shelley phelps has spoken to one of those surrogate mothers. these surrogate born babies are starting life at a makeshift nursery in a bomb shelter basement. their foreign biological parents unable to pick them up because of war. more arrive every day and they expect to have around 100 here by the end of the month. translation: we are worried for ourselves, for our own - children, for these little babies who stay here, for everyone. it s terrifying because we sit here and we don t know what will happen next. even though we stay in the basement, when there is an explosion somewhere nearby, we can hear it very clearly.
anyone to see the if you will invasion of ukraine, does that mean he is deciding? hard to tell and deeply troubling. reporting alive for us in mykolaiv, ukraine. more than 2.5 million people have left ukraine. cnn sam kylie reports on the fight to keep safe infants born to surrogate mothers. reporter: this is precious cargo. not cash in transit but week old baby lawrence in transit to a new life. born to a surrogate mother under bombardment in kyiv. he is raced through the ukrainian capital to a nursery in the southwest of the city. it s perilously close to russian troops and easily within range
trauma that we re seeing among civilians here in mykolaiv and saw today the volume of ambulances wizzing around here. it is quite extraordinary to see a population trembling frankly with the kind of heavy shelling that we re seeing at this stage. the question really is how is the balance of power between the two militaries around it? there seem to be claims again from the ukrainians they managed to clear some roads, but there s also fears of potentially of russia moving back in at some point. this is so vital for russia s project for the south here, for control of the black seacoast important for their broader, perhaps far-fetched goal of a longer-term occupation of ukraine and mykolaiv have deep concerns of what may lie in the days ahead. nick, thank you so much for that. they are the youngest and most vulnerable, trapped in the war zone that is ukraine s capital. babies born to surrogate mothers. their new parents unable to come and pick them up because it s
realise we re doing this so that they don t use these dreadful weapons. people around the world have seen images of the 21 surrogate babies being cared for in a kyiv bomb shelter. a top eu official is now calling for their evacuation as their intended parents can t travel to ukraine during the russian invasion. shelley phelps has spoken to one of those surrogate mothers. these surrogate born babies are starting life at a makeshift nursery in a bomb shelter basement. their foreign biological parents unable to pick them up because of war. more arrive every day and they expect to have around 100 here by the end of the month. translation: we are worried for ourselves, for our own - children, for these little babies who stay here, for everyone. it s terrifying because we sit here and we don t know what will happen next. even though we stay in the basement, when there