Russian troops shell outskirts of Kyiv hours after pledging to withdraw on day 36 

 More than 4mn people have fled Ukraine to escape the ongoing war. On Wednesday, a man in military uniform carried bags of Ukrainian refugees who departed Medyka border in southeastern Poland.

 Meanwhile, when shelling resumed between Russian and Ukrainian forces near Kyiv, workers and soldiers attempted to evacuate the surviving animals from a private zoo in the village of Yasnohorodka.

 Death toll continued to mount in Ukraine with aggravated bombings in key areas like Kharkiv and Mariupol. A relative of a 3-year-old mourned her coffin after she was killed while evacuating Kharkiv.

 Senior citizens lived on the precipice of an emotional breakdown as Russian bombings resumed. A Ukrainian soldier comforted a distraught elderly on Wednesday.

 A decorated veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan retrieved his military medals from the ruins of his house, destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the village.

 Some residents who were forced to leave homes due to bombings returned on Wednesday in search of items left behind. A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv passed through the rubble of her destroyed home.

 As the Ukraine war escalated to day 36, Russian troops resumed shelling in the outskirts of Kyiv despite pledging to scale back after negotiation in Turkey.