ukraine trying to beat bac russia s assault on thei nation that is the good news but for the people who are still in ukraine, every day is a repeat of the same nightmare nbc s gabe gutierrez has thi report, tonight. it seems unreal, it s becom a bleak existence. this is the dark frigi basement where a dozen familie crowd together each nigh huddled by candlelight, fueled by defiance. when the bombing is going you never know where it will drop victoria works for a charit in chernihiv, that s i northern ukraine near belarus. russian troops surrounded th city, but it s hanging on. so are other cities like mariupol in kharkiv. this is not a war between ukraine and russia, this is war between light and darkness between goodness and evil we
victory for the russians they haven t been able t capture mariupol, and that has made russian commanders resort to medieval siege an starvation tactics and they ve caused a humanitarian crisis and wher you pull, incredibly, they blamed the ukrainian people fo the humanitarian crisis, because they wouldn t commit she late and give up their city the people of mariupol are without food, withou electricity, without running water, without heating, withou gas. all the people we have spoke to paint a horrifying pictur of what is going on in tha city i spoke to a young lady wh managed to escape mariupol a couple of days ago, let s take a listen to what she had t say. when i was going to sleep, was crying and havin nightmares every night, becaus i was afraid that i would just die here we were even discussing with m family, hoping that if we di
despite a big push by th russians trying to encircl kyiv, they haven t been able t do it. that is one of their mai objectives, to take the capital, and other major strategi places like mariupol let s talk about where yo prefer a second, the image that we have seen this evening out a mariupol, and literall for the last several days, mak the place look like hell o earth. you ve recently spoke with someone who s made it out of there just in the last few days that s right, mariupol is the most hard hit and destroye city in ukraine, they have taken the brunt of the russian artillery, missiles, and bombs because it s such a strategi place for the russians it would create a land corrido to the donbas region, if the were to take mariupol, it woul connect russia to crime area and that would be a huge
he was in a district where a lot of russian troops who were it was very scary, and at this moment the only choice he ha was to walk by foot throug this shelling area, to get t the c district - and to be able to leave th city it is really dangerous to. what do you think it s goin to happen to that city the russians have not succeede in taking control of it, yet but they have devastated it, and they continue to kee selling it i guess it will burn down to ashes, because the firs days without the russians, the wanted to invade the city, t have a victory over people inside but, at the latest, understood that they jus wanted to destroy it what do you plan to do now? you got out with your family
it will be fast and no painful. we hope not to die from hunger, because it woul be much easier to die mediately. my sister told me that if we run out of food, we will commi suicide together it was really difficult t listen to that interview wit her, ali, it was reall heartbreaking. she told me that when they wer escaping mariupol, they were met by russian checkpoints, th russian soldiers taunting them laughed at them, to what the had done in their city, sh managed to escape with a pai of trainers and her laptop, to get out of that city, and some of her family members. but for others there who remai in that city, it s a devastating situation, and the feeling is that the russians are going to continue thei