in a cellar in mariupol. "the planes are flying overhead," she says, "dropping bombs, scaring the children. please organise a humanitarian corridor to help our children escape." but so far, there is no safe passage out of mariupol. it's about two sides that need to come to the same terms. they need to find together an agreement. and if that doesn't happen? well, if that doesn't happen, knowing already how dire the situation is for the population inside the city, we can only be extremely concerned for the life of all those people. mariupol is a big, important city, and the russians need to capture it to help their advance here into southern ukraine. and their tactics are becoming brutally familiar. if you can't seize a city, then simply flatten it, whatever the cost in human lives.