was not anxious to follow those routes. so this route here in yellow is the one that s been open for the last few hours. other news has to do with mariupol down here, a city under siege. there s been an effort to get humanitarian aid in to the city. but the ukrainians say that humanitarian convoy, that has been shelled. what can you tell us about that? yeah. so john, cnn has not been able to verify independently the status of that corridor. the information we re getting is from a ukrainian minister. again, it s not clear what exactly has been agreed upon between russia and ukraine, that minister says there were more than 30 buses headed from zaporizhzhia to mariupol. eight trucks carrying aid, food, water, medicine, all of the essentials that that city so, so desperately needs and that minister says that convoy was facing shelling in their direction. so it is not clear at this stage whether it will be able to proceed into the city again. it s not clear what they have