Russian troops shell outskirts of Kyiv hours after pledging to withdrawon day 36
More than 4mn people have fled Ukraine to escape theongoing war. On Wednesday, a man in military uniformcarried bags of Ukrainian refugees who departedMedyka border in southeastern Poland.
Meanwhile, when shelling resumed between Russianand Ukrainian forces near Kyiv, workers and soldiersattempted to evacuate the surviving animals from aprivate 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 aftershe 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 elderlyon Wednesday.
A decorated veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan retrieved his military medals from the ruins of hishouse, destroyed during fighting between Russianand 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 passedthrough the rubble of her destroyed home.
As the Ukraine war escalated to day 36, Russian troopsresumed shelling in the outskirts of Kyiv despite pledgingto scale back after negotiation in Turkey.