The only way out and he stumbles hands shaking but he summons his courage and carries on the desperate exodus from er pin today across the wreckage of a bridge blown up by Ukraine to slow the Russian advance.

How scared do you have to be to take your child and flee like this?

And here a woman lies conscious buddy mobile, she fell and there's no stretcher to move her.

Well, this is a difficult journey every step of the way, especially for older people trying to pick their way out across rubble and concrete having to balance on bits of wood.

Ukrainian troops are trying to help them make their way forward.

Some are coming with their Children.

Most are coming with a few small things they can carry.

They've been under bombardment inner pin for days and they're not safe now, even as they try to leave, the shelling has been continuing all right, for many civilians in the town that shelling hit home like Anastasia whose son Oleg is just five months old with the help of the day before yesterday, A shell hit our house, she tells me we spent two days at my grandmother's.

Now we are leaving because it's too dangerous to be in any corner of europe in with a child.

Suddenly this some Ukrainian forces running for cover, others getting civilians out of the line of fire.

Kiev is just half an hour away If Ukraine loses this town and it's already lost some of it, the Russians will be on the road to the capital.

Andre like many here is begging for a no fly zone.

Tell everybody to close the sky urgently.

All people needed in Ukraine.

Really many people stay in european for now.

They can't go outside.

Some old people, some young people, they try to do the best there.

But we see the Russian soldiers, they don't fighting with army, They fight it with anyone.

So tell please to close the sky for now all many can do is cram into minivans bound for the railway station in the capital.

Generations of Ukrainians at the mercy of an increasingly brutal Russian advance.

Yeah.

And in the city outside the registry office, the new soundtrack of cave, not what Kate and our tour had hoped for on their special day.

The war has tightened their bond but up ended their lives firstly.

It was very scary when it started.

But me and my family and me, we're all christians.

We pray to God and we believe that he cares about us and protects us and you're getting married today, which is a very hopeful thing to do.

What kind of future do you see for you both?

I see that Ukraine will win and we will help to restore the country and make everything possible to to make a deal okay?

There were no guests at the ceremony.

It was too dangerous for loved ones to join them.

The newlyweds say they will have a party when Ukraine is victorious.

Gearan BBC News Kiev.