inside the steel plant in the besieged city of mariupol. there are about 1,000 or so civilians holed up upside, and they are desperately running out of food and water, having not seen daylight for some 50-plus days of the they face relentless attacks from russian forces. we have the story for you. reporter: these are russian troops making a break for cover in the streets near the azov steel plant in mariupol. one is shot along the way. one ukrainian deputy commander says russia is not only bombarding the plant from the sky but now also attacking from the ground. translator: as of today, there have been attempts to storm the territory. this is infantry. this is enemy military equipment. but those attempts have been beaten off as of this hour.
up, are dire. people are running out of food and water. at least one american, by the way, has died while volunteering to fight with ukrainian army. the former u.s. marine, joe us joseph willie cancel was killed on monday. sanchez is in lviv, ukraine, with the latest. we are seeing the assault continue on mariupol and the eastern donbas region. where else is going on? we spoke to a soldier who was inside the steel plant, this morning. vladimir putin s bombs and missiles continued to rain down on those troops, the wounded soldier. and the women and children who are stuck down in the tunnels with them. hopes of an evacuation of civilians has been raised and dashed in the last 24 hours. president zelenskyy s office said yesterday that they thought on evacuation would go ahead. today, there is no sign of any movement down there in mariupol. the fighting is continuing on the eastern front of the donbas.
wounded. they are now unable to get basic medical care. as you can see, from mariupol, it is absolutely devastating. apart from the military you are seeing in the streets, there are still civilians trapped there living in the most horrendous conditions you can imagine. i have to ask you about this. one of the fears is that if the azov steel steel plant, if that last infill s in the russians to take control of mariupol, we have heard estimates from city councilors, and males, and non government organization that maybe 5000 people have been killed, that 10, 000, than 20,000. one of the dangers, unlike bucha or places like that, are if the russians remain in control of it we may not get the full story of how bad things became. if the russians gain control of it we will never know what s really happened in mariupol. we will be left with stories that people tell, and retail for generations and and.
some kind of evacuation from one of the shopping malls there. that s been hinted by ukrainian officials. at the same time too, the presidential level, an adviser to the ukrainian president, has said that the russians have rej proposals there. there are 100,000 in the city, across it, so we re not always talking about the azov steel plant. but across the city, the threat of disease, frankly, because of the number of bodies there, because obviously the devastating lack of hygiene and basic supplies, that threat of disease rises too. that s also a threat for the new russian occupiers there as well. so clearly a clock ticking. certainly moves become made by the u.n. and red cross to facilitate this. this rests on the decisions of one man, vladimir putin, and so far those big corridors have not been opened, jim. what do we know about these
the case, that would be a major breakthrough in a situation that is bad and only getting worse. these are russian troops making a break for cover in the streets near the azov steel plant in mariupol. one of them is shot along the way and a fellow soldiers attempts to pull him to safety amidst heavy fire. one ukrainian deputy commander said that russia is not only bombarding the plant from the sky, but now also attacking from the ground. as of today there have been attempted to storm the territory of azov. this is infantry, this is enemy military equipment. but those attempts have been beaten off as of this hour. reporter: deputy commander of the azov regiment leading the fight from the plant said that recent bombing left some cellars in bunkers and not sure if there