Russian troops are closing in on Ukraine’s capital as explosions and street fighting sent Kyiv residents seeking shelter or fleeing the city.
The country’s president claimed Saturday that Ukraine’s forces had repulsed the assault and vowed to keep fighting.
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“We will win,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Skirmishes reported on the edge of Kyiv suggested that small Russian units were trying to clear a path for the main forces. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko extended a curfew he imposed two days ago to run from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m.
Russia claims its assault on Ukraine is aimed only at military targets, but a missile struck a high-rise apartment building in the city’s southwestern outskirts on Saturday.
Lines of vehicles miles long are clogging border crossings out of Ukraine, as residents rushed to escape danger from invading Russian troops that were advancing toward the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
The U.N. refugee agency said Saturday that nearly 120,000 people have so far fled into neighboring countries and that number is going up fast. A U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees official described the situation as "very fluid and changing by the hour.”
The agency expects up to 4 million Ukrainians could flee if the situation deteriorates.
Most were heading to neighboring Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. One teenager cried as she described saying goodbye to her grandparents, who could not leave, and fleeing into Romania.
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