00:00And as those negotiators meet in Miami trying to end the war, Ukrainians are still being killed on a daily basis.
00:08Many still oppose giving in to Russia's demands.
00:11Our special correspondent Mariel Muller and her team met Kiev residents who survived a missile strike on their homes.
00:207 a.m. We get a call from emergency services.
00:24A missile hit an apartment building in Kiev's Darnitsky district.
00:28Fire crews are fighting the flames, tearing through homes people were sleeping in just minutes ago.
00:34About 100 meters away on this street, a man was walking past when the missile, intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses, struck.
00:42He was killed instantly.
00:44This is where the long-range cruise missile, as we were told, hit the ground.
00:49You can still see some parts smoking there.
00:52And this is where it bounced off and hit the apartment building in the back, where it caused fire in several apartments.
00:59And this is what's left of it.
01:02They're taking it away for further inspection.
01:06Elia was asleep in his apartment when the explosion shattered his window.
01:10I saw flames right in front of me, flying fragments.
01:14Blood immediately ran down my face.
01:17He was lucky, just a minor injury.
01:20Jana tells us she and her mother live on the ninth floor and barely made it out in time.
01:25My mother is 75 years old and could barely hold on.
01:31She was already screaming for help.
01:33She started to choke and collapse.
01:36If they had have taken another minute or two, that would have been it.
01:40We would have suffocated.
01:41Like others here, she's worried about a neighbor she hasn't been able to find.
01:46He was on the seventh floor, screaming.
01:49I don't know if he was rescued.
01:52The fire was literally creeping up on him.
01:54It's very scary.
01:56We're heading up to see for ourselves, straight into the smoke that burns our lungs.
02:02Behind us is the apartment.
02:04It's still a lot of smoke, so it's really hard to breathe.
02:07This was the living room, the kitchen.
02:10Everything is completely destroyed.
02:11They extinguished the fire just a few minutes ago.
02:15It's disgusting.
02:17I'm already an old person.
02:19And I want to spend my remaining years in retirement, peacefully.
02:27The next-door neighbor, Mikola, has come to check his home.
02:30It, too, is filled with smoke.
02:32But at least it isn't damaged.
02:35There is no light.
02:37They turned it off.
02:38Do you feel safe here now?
02:40No.
02:41I'll wait until tomorrow morning.
02:43Usually the shelling starts between 3 and 5 a.m.
02:46They deprive me of my joy.
02:52Everything feels absolutely meaningless.
02:56He's been following the news from far-off places where others make decisions about his life.
03:02We were unlucky with Trump.
03:05My opinion of America has worsened in general.
03:11It's so bad.
03:12People here won't surrender.
03:15Because to whom and where?
03:18They will shoot everyone anyway.
03:20Back outside, Victoria still can't grasp what happened.
03:27Even though she sees this on the news every day, she says, it's hard to believe it struck her own home this time.
03:33There's no time for crying.
03:37I asked myself, what needs to be done?
03:39You need to run, save yourself, save the cat.
03:42Honestly, because of the shock, I don't feel anything right now.
03:47And even though the killing and destruction has entered its fourth year,
03:51giving up is simply not an option for people here.
03:54I believe we must negotiate until all of Ukraine's conditions are met.
04:07So that all the lives that were lost in this war are not in vain.
04:12Conditions shouldn't be dictated by Russia.
04:18This reflects the sentiment among many Ukrainians.
04:21If they surrender now, all those sacrifices would have been for nothing.
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