Despite the fighting in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not want to leave the capital.

"I'm staying in Kyiv," he said in a video message released Monday night.

He does not hide and is not afraid of anyone.

“Today is the twelfth night of our struggle, our defense.

We are all on site, everyone is working.

Everyone where he has to.

I'm in Kyiv, my team with me."

According to the Presidential Office, Zelenskyy recalled Ukrainian soldiers serving on foreign missions.

The "highly professional military" would be needed in the fight against "Russian aggression," it said.

According to Ukrainian media, the country is involved in operations in Kosovo, Congo and Ivory Coast.

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of attacking civilian targets

Zelensky sharply criticized a Russian airstrike west of Kyiv that, according to Ukrainian sources, killed at least 13 civilians.

“Today they shelled a bakery in Makariv, Kyiv region.

For what?

An old bakery.

Think about it: they're shelling a bakery.

Who do you have to be to do something like that?”

Russian troops are located north-west of Kyiv and are also attempting to advance towards the capital from the west.

Russia insists its troops will not attack civilian targets in Ukraine.

Zelenskyj said that talks with Russia would continue.

“We are realists.

That's why we're going to talk.

We will insist on negotiations until we find a way to say to our people: This is how we come to peace," he said.

Every day of struggle creates "better conditions" for Ukraine.

"A strong position.

To secure our future.

After this war.”

According to its UN ambassador, Russia again offered a ceasefire to open escape corridors.

Speaking before the UN Security Council in New York, Vasily Nebensia quoted from a new statement from Moscow: “It says that the Russian party says again that tomorrow, March 8, at 10 a.m. Moscow time, a ceasefire will be implemented and humanitarian corridors will be opened should be opened” to evacuate citizens from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol.

Ukraine accused Russia of undermining plans to open escape routes.

Although the government in Moscow and the International Committee of the Red Cross have agreed on a route via the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, Moscow has announced new routes only via Russia and Belarus in a letter.

That's what Ukraine's ambassador to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, said.

"I urge the Russian side to return to previously agreed routes to allow Ukrainian and foreign citizens to travel to Europe."

Russian Ambassador Nebensia stressed that refugees would not necessarily be sent to Russia: "Evacuation towards Ukrainian cities west of Kyiv is also being offered."