In videos, photos and maps, how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unfolding on the ground

Mapping the Russian attack of Ukraine

It was unclear how much of the country remains under Ukrainian control and how much Russia has seized.

According to the United Nations there have been 240 civilian casualties, including 64 deaths, although the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says the actual number is likely “considerably higher.”

In photos, videos and maps, this is how the situation on the ground is unfolding, including reports from journalists for The Post on the scene.

For the latest developments from Ukraine, follow our live coverage.

Feb. 27

Map: What Russia’s troop movements look like as of Sunday

Refugee numbers surge

More than 360,000 Ukrainians have crossed into neighboring countries, according to the United Nations refugee agency. They are going to Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova. They are waiting in lines for as long as 36 hours to enter these countries as they flee the escalating fighting at home.

Feb. 26

Reporter dispatch: Sirens and warnings in Ukraine’s capital

Missile strikes residential building in Kyiv

Two surveillance camera videos, verified by The Washington Post, show the moment a missile hits a residential high-rise in Kyiv on Saturday morning, as Ukrainian forces fight to hold the capital city. There was no word on casualties; air raid sirens sound to warn people to seek shelter underground.

Firefighters extinguished flames where it appears there are commercial shops on the ground floor.

Through analysis and geolocation of the videos, The Post determined that the missile hit the building from the west. Directly behind the building to the east, in the path of the missile’s approximate trajectory, is a medical center.

— Atthar Mirza and Elyse Samuels

Ukrainians flee into neighboring countries

Perhaps 120,000 people already had fled Ukraine into neighboring countries, the U.N. refugee agency said Saturday, cramming into trains, packed into cars and buses, and even walking across borders.

The refugees are being welcomed by Hungary and other neighboring countries that all resisted accepting people displaced by the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Satellite images on Friday showed a four-mile-long line of vehicles waiting to cross a checkpoint at Siret, Romania. The Romanian defense minister said earlier this week that the NATO country of 19 million could take in up to a half-million refugees.

The majority crossing the borders are women and children, since Ukraine has tried to prevent most men from leaving the country so they can stay and fight. Some children have been sent alone.

Anna Semyuk, 33, hugged her son at a Hungarian crossing on Saturday. At the Ukrainian side of the border, her son and daughter had been handed by their father, who is not allowed to cross, to Nataliya Ableyeva, 58, a stranger who took the children across the border and kept them safe.

“We didn’t expect it to happen so fast,” said Khrystyna Spilnyk, 22, who was walking to the Polish border with her mother after leaving their car at the side of the road on Thursday. “We are stressed, confused.”

The largest numbers continued to pour into Poland, where many Ukrainians already had emigrated to work after previous Russian incursions. Many people sent children alone.

Read more about the massive displacement

From Kyiv to Kharkiv Ukrainians are answering the call to take up arms

Read about how Ukrainian militias are forming as Russian forces near

Reporter dispatch: Kyiv residents prepare for a fight

Reporter dispatch: Ukrainian volunteers build molotov cocktails

Reporter dispatch: In the western city of Lviv, sirens, fear and preparation

Feb. 25

A hospital under fire

Russia has claimed its assault on Ukraine is aimed only at military targets, but bridges, schools and residential areas have been hit with air and missile strikes.

Some of the heaviest attacks have been in the southeastern city of Melitopol, where shelling struck the second floor of a hospital Friday, as seen in video of the event first verified by Storyful.

Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liashko confirmed in a Facebook post that the hospital came under fire. He said that no one was hurt.

A Russian bomb struck a hospital in Ukraine’s Donetsk region a day earlier, according to Human Rights Watch. At least four civilians were killed and the hospital damaged, the group said, basing its account on interviews with hospital staffers and analysis of photos of weapons remnants.

— Meg Kelly and Joyce Sohyun Lee

Russian troops have entered Ukraine from the north, south and east of the country.