Russian troops have killed seven civilians, including women and a child while trying to flee Ukraine’s Kyiv region.

This was confirmed by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in a tweet via its Twitter handle on Saturday.

“Russians shot at a column of women and children in Kyiv region, who were trying to evacuate along a previously agreed ‘green’ corridor. The result of this brutal act — seven dead. One of them is a child,” a tweet from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.

Meanwhile, an update from the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said the civilians were fleeing on a route that was not an agreed-upon “green corridor.”

The group of women and children were trying to evacuate near the village of Peremoga in Kyiv on Friday when they were shot at by the Russian troops, according to Ukraine’s intelligence agency.

The war between Ukraine and Russia began in February.

The war enters its seventeenth day today, with massive casualties already recorded.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had ordered the invasion of Ukraine over disagreements on some political issues, had listed some conditions to end the war.