Good morning. I'm Ali Valshi. It is Sunday, March the 20th. I'm here at the Nugati

Rail Station in Budapest, Hungary, where Ukrainians fleeing Russia's destructive invasion continue to pour in.

We begin with breaking new developments. Russia's defense ministry claims to have

launched a second hypersonic missile strike. Hypersonic missiles, because of their speed and

maneuverability, are hard for U.S. defense satellite and radar to detect. Russia says the second

use of hypersonic missiles was aimed at Ukrainian military targets in the Nikolaiev region in

southern Ukraine. NBC has not verified these claims. Meanwhile, Russian forces are continuing their

push into the besieged city, Port City of Maripal, which has been the scene of some of the wars

worse suffering. City Council officials there say Russian occupiers dropped bombs on an

art school yesterday where about 400 Marriopal residents were hiding, including women, children,

and the elderly. The officials say the building was destroyed. The people are trapped under the

rubble. City Council officials are now claiming that several thousand Maricopal residents

have been forcibly sent to Russia over the past week amid the heavy shelling and attacks.

Again, NBC News has not yet independently verified that claim. As Russia's military continues

to pummel the port city, more than 4,000 civilians have been able to leave

through one of the eight humanitarian corridors that were opened on Saturday, and that's

according to a top Ukraine official, the Kremlin's attacks have left that city without electricity,

heat, water, food, or medical supplies for days, something that's been confirmed to us by

Ukrainian refugees who have arrived here

in Hungary from Maripal. And that, of course, is in addition to the more than 3.3 million

Ukrainians who fled the country in search of safety, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Russia's continued invasion is taking a devastating number of Ukrainian lives. The United Nations

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