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front line. some 300 kilometers at least. but clearly, the russians have refocused as they said they would on trying to catch the eastern areas. now we re hearing from a significant general in the russian army that they want to actually grab on to larger areas of the coastal literal area along the azov sea, the black sea, but they are also being held up there, jake. so at the moment, we are seeing a focus of the efforts principally in the east. if mariupol falls to the russians, what does that mean for russia s plan overall in. reporter: well, mariupol has been a really important defense. a strategic defense of the city over many, many weeks now at enormous cost to ukrainians. as we all know, there are some 100,000 civilians stuck in the city. more importantly, there s estimated to be about 1,000 fighters stug in the azov steel
so far they control odesa but mariupol remains on the brink with russia controlling all but one steel plant complex. cnn s jim sciutto reports on the struggle for survival in mariupol. reporter: evidence of new horrors emerging from the desperate ukrainian stand-off in mariupol. satellite shows what appears to be a massive grave just outside the city. local officials accuse russian officials of war crimes there. russian president vladimir putin has claimed russian forces liberated mariupol and says he personally called off an assault on the azovstal steel plant. the u.s. is not convinced, however, that russia controls all of the city and ukrainian officials denial it. actions. not words. we have to watch and see what the russians actually do here. reporter: ukraine says russia has not agreed to establish civilian corridors to allow
functionally control the entire city, which it seems like they very much do, as long as there are ukrainian fighters and there are inside that azovstal steel plant complex and a small surrounding area, then technically the entire city has not yet been captured. the russian defense minister saying they might be able to capture that steel plant in the next three to four days. this is what we have been hearing from russia for a long time now, this idea that russia is on the brink of capturing mariupol has been talked about for a long time now. and what is clear, i think, bianna, is that taking this steel plant is not going to be easy. putin himself even said that essentially it is not worth sending russian soldiers in to fight and die just to capture that steel plant. you could see the russians essentially just wait them out, wait out the defenders inside that steel plant. not only waiting out the defenders there, but also remember there are hundreds of civilians that are also inside that
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