"Our Town Being Bombed": Ukrainians Cross Border, Relatives Left Behind

Ukraine War: At Ukraine's border with Romania, women and children arrived by car, bicycle and on foot, clutching plastic bags and roll-on suitcases as the snow fell.

Svitlana Babatenko and her three children arrived on foot in Slovakia on Friday after trying to escape the fierce fighting unleashed when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Her husband stayed behind to fight while she, their two teenagers and 10-year-old son journeyed west to safety.

"Our town, Malyn, is now being bombed, planes are destroying houses. Our relatives stayed behind," she told news agency Reuters as they waited for a bus to take their group to Poland.

"Last night, their house was bombed, we do not have any connection with them. We do not know if they ran away."