my residential district, it was 130,000 people are now my residential district, it was 130,000 people. now there is no district any more, the building where i grew up, a nine storey building, 200 apartments, it is totally burned because several tanks, several times shoot on this building. and like all hospitals are destroyed, almost all the schools are destroyed. even my university s destroyed. everything s destroyed. the only thing we have in mariupol now is people. there are 300,000 people that are still in mariupol and without food and without water because mariupol, you know, it is in a pretty arid climate, and we don t have wells in the city, and people cannot go. we have a small, pretty dirty river in mariupol, but people cannot go there because the street fights are going everywhere, all the time.
can imagine it isjust so much more distressing for you? distressing for you? yes, it is. the last 25 days distressing for you? yes, it is. the last 25 days have distressing for you? yes, it is. the last 25 days have been distressing for you? yes, it is. the last 25 days have been quite i last 25 days have been quite horrific. what i can obviously see now is mariupol is a part of the russian playbook the russians have perfected in assyria. their strategy is to keep as many civilians as they can inside the city, because civilians use food, medicine, fuel the. so if you keep civilians in the city, you obviously hinder the defending forces. so i think the strategy is to keep them inside and you terrorise them into submission, so the defending forces are hindered in their military actions inside the city. in their military actions inside the ci . ., , ., in their military actions inside the ci . . , ., , ., , in their military actions inside the city. have you been able to hear from
looks like this boeing 737 has become the latest air traffic accident here. really terrible news and we will bring you more of it as we get more information. stephen mcdonell live we get more information. stephen mcdonell live from we get more information. stephen mcdonell live from beijing. - we get more information. stephen mcdonell live from beijing. he i we get more information. stephen mcdonell live from beijing. he will bring is the latest as we get it. the united nations refugee agency says around ten million ukrainians have been displaced or driven from their homes by the invasion, and about 3.5 million of those people have now left ukraine for neighbouring countries. most have gone to poland, but thousands have also headed for romania, hungary, moldova and slovakia. 0ur correspondent danjohnson is in the polish city of krakow. still people arriving here from over the border in ukraine, even though the border in ukraine, even though the numbers are a little bit smaller than
haven t had anything directly from| haven t had anything directly from the kremlin about what happens next. russia was clear about what it wanted to happen. they said if ukraine follow this ultimatum that they wanted the troops to come out and lay down their weapons and then they would allow a humanitarian corridor. the fact that ukraine has said they won t be surrendering the city means we don t know what the kremlin will do next. this only intensifies the situation in mariupol. what is interesting is how this is being betrayed in russia. if you were to look at state media and look at the russian estate papers here, you will get very different impression about what s happening in mariupol. even at the russian authorities have called us, in their words, a terrible humanitarian catastrophe. but in terms of who is responsible, russia has very directly blamed what they called ukrainian nationalists, notjust for the general situation in mariupol, but also for the individual atrocities we h
get over. these doctors and the children s surviving relatives asked us to tell their stories. this doctor, head of the children love hospital, cannot hide his contempt for what russia has done. translation: t for what russia has done. translation: for what russia has done. translation: ., , , ., translation: i hate russia. the girl who lost her translation: i hate russia. the girl who lost her leg translation: i hate russia. the girl who lost her leg was translation: i hate russia. the girl who lost her leg was so translation: i hate russia. the girl who lost her leg was so traumatised, | who lost her leg was so traumatised, she would not eat or drink for days. she could not mentally handle it. we had to feed her intravenously. another boy, a six year old, with shrapnel in his skull, described without tears of emotion, watching his mother burn to death in their car after it was hit. he then said, death, buy me a mum, i want someone to walk to school. to walk to school. what i