shelling has continued, the highways, people are facing filing from russian forces and so they didn t want to endanger people. firing. they put out a statement and said to be able to take shelter, disperse and wait until there is more information for an evacuation so in terms of that window for a humanitarian corridor closing, that actually didn t take place in russia has now confirmed also in the last half hour that fighting has resumed in mariupol so another intense heavy, desperately devastating night for the citizens there but in terms of the significance of mariupol it is one of the most strategic port towns of ukraine. it is also a land corridor that will be created, a land bridge that will connect crimea into mariupol and so that really cuts off a loss of the commercial trade that takes place and although there is the larger port of 0desa
that was supposed to be set up today never happened. so what you ve got in here look at this this is the city circus ring, and the authorities had laid out mattresses and pillows. they thought that people could have a rest here, take a few moments before they carried on to be housed in hostels, student hostels and schools in safety. but it hasn t been used. what s happened is the mayor of mariupol has said that the humanitarian corridor was impossible to set up because the russian forces carried on firing. they said it was far too dangerous for people to get in the evacuation buses and to try to drive to safety. he said that there are still negotiations going on between the russians and ukrainians and that, when it is safe and when it is possible, they will get people on those buses and they will get them to places like this. but, for the moment, all of this is prepared, all of it s ready but there s no one here. that was sarah rainsford.
importance of malleable can you ust lay that out. please?i lay that out. please? the fighting actually never lay that out. please? the fighting actually never stopped. lay that out. please? the fighting actually never stopped. the - lay that out. please? the fighting i actually never stopped. the russian defence ministry in the early hours of this morning put out a statement through the russian media saying that there would be a ceasefire, corridor where people could get out of the fighting and ukrainian government says about 200,000 people are trapped and need to get out. this this is a city in the town with about 450,000 people and people desperate to get away from the shelling. they have got nothing left and yet the fighting, the shelling continues. i spoke to the deputy mayor of mariupol earlier today and he said to us we ve got 50 buses on standby to get into the city and yet we don t trust that this ceasefire has actually come into place so we re going to wait until we put p
we ve had three air raid sirens this morning, but it s another morning where it s still. there are even fewer people that we can see from our vantage point here on the street. you see armed volunteers stood next to professional soldiers on checkpoints and barricades in streets across the city, and you can t help but wonder, do they know what awaits them on the outskirts of the city? that ito mile long armoured convoy 30 kilometres north remains in situ. army chiefs expect it to be joined by russian reinforcements working their way down. but, equally, you wonder if the invaders know what awaits them if or when they arrive here in the capital city, because what is happening across ukraine is that ukrainians are fighting back. this is why we talk on the tenth day of this conflict where one city so far, only one major city has fallen. that said, there is intense fighting continuing, certainly in mariupol in the south east. that is the last major location that separates advancing russian fo
around 200,000 people are desperate to leave mariupol in the south of the country, but their exit to safety has been stalled. if and when russian forces take the city, they will effectively cut ukraine off from the black sea. our eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, is in the town of zaporizhzhia, whose nucler power plant was targeted by russian troops earlier this week, and where evacuees from mariupol are being taken. this enormous pile of clothing, worn clothes here, has been brought by the people of zaporizhzhia to this collection point because they were told that they were expecting a huge flow of families to come here from mariupol in the south, where there s been really heavy fighting for days now, so they ve brought blankets, they brought bedding. hot dinners have been prepared by local businesspeople. they ve brought fresh fruit and vegetables, too all of it for the large number of families they were expecting to arrive here, but that humanitarian corridor