A CBS reporter in Ukraine was forced to flee after Russian forces attacked a maternity ward being used as a hospital

• A CBS reporter was forced to flee after being caught in an attack in a suburb of Kyiv.
• Charlie D'Agata said Russian forces bombed a maternity hospital that was being used as a hospital.

CBS reporter Charlie D'Agata on Monday was forced to flee after a Russian attack on a suburb outside of Kyiv.

D'Agata and his team have been reporting from the ground in a village outside of Ukraine's capital city.

He said they had witnessed some damage from previous bombings in the town, but were hit with a new round of shelling while driving to a maternity ward that was being used as a makeshift hospital.

"As we were driving back to the hospital," D'Agata said in a clip shared online by CBS News, "the whole place came under attack."

He continued: "It was coming down on all sides."

D'Agata said the hospital itself was hit by the shelling.

"Now we're speeding out of this village because the whole place has come under attack," D'Agata said while in a car.

"Even in the direction where we're going there have been explosions," he said. "We just need to get out of the kill zone," which he described as being in a "residential area."

Russian forces have been shelling Ukrainian town towns and cities as its invasion drags on. In one Kyiv suburb, harrowing video and photos showed a Ukrainian family being killed in a mortar strike. Hundreds of civilians have died in the Russian assault, according to official reports, but the actual death toll is expected to be far higher.