a squeeze on some festivities. hello and welcome to the programme. efforts to evacuate the devastated port of mariupol and its massive azovstal steel plant have been delayed. ukrainian officials said russian forces were blocking humanitarian corridors near the plant where people have been sheltering, and shelling had resumed after a ceasefire over the weekend. hundreds are still trapped in the steelworks. elsewhere in the city, civilians have spent hours waiting for evacuation buses that were originally due early in the morning. meanwhile, the un refugee agency says more than 5.5 million people have now fled ukraine. let s go live now to ben brown in kyiv for the very latest from ukraine.
hello from kyiv. the latest attempt to evacuate citizens from and its massive steel plant, those attempts have run into real problems. the defence ministry says they are blocking. elsewhere in the city, a group of civilians have spent hours waiting for evacuation buses. they were originally due to leave early in the morning at 7am local time. those buses, it seems, never got moving. a two day cease fire over the weekend allowed 100 people to escape from the azovstal still works. some of them have not seen daylight for two months. they were
they are still fighting the russian forces even as russia says they have taken the city. there s civilians there that have been trapped. evacuation buses from tried from the red cross and icrc to previously move people out. i know sources who are linked to mariupol, city officials who aren t there but are in touch with people tell me they have been able to get at private citizens, limited evacuation buses but it s been nothing but brutality from russia and soon after the meeting with the u.n. secretary-general putin was saying that was not the agreement. ant other issue, is you know, whenever russia says evacuations will be allowed they simply mean they will put people on buses and send them into russia which has been the history, unfortunately, which amounts to ethnic cleansing and kidnapping. this is reported from nbc news, there s been much more significant intel sharing that we heard about. this is what we heard. that u.s. intelligence helped ukraine protect defenses, shoot down
we have helped a lot of cancer patients, a lot of families who have disabled family members, a lot of children, we have helped them to internally, within ukraine, find safe spaces that would offer them free help and free medicine. we have also facilitated a lot of financial aid. we offer them these evacuation buses that we pay for ourselves that there is a need for it, as well as tickets. we also offer resources to purchase food for them if they ve been left without any financial resources. we been left without any financial resources- been left without any financial resources. ~ , ., resources. we believe it there. from the organisation resources. we believe it there. from the organisation helping resources. we believe it there. from the organisation helping to resources. we believe it there. from the organisation helping to leave, i the organisation helping to leave, very important work that you are doing. thank you very much indeed forjoining us. thank you. sexual offence vic
yesterday. instead, he wants to block it off so a fly cannot get through. he has offered dignified treatment to anyone who surrenders, calling an effort to capture the city a success. some doubt considering how the russians have treated some prisoners. they bombarded an urgent push to save 120,000 trapped civilians and soldiers. four evacuation buses were able to leave through a humanitarian corridor. president zelenskyy warning his forces simply don t have enough serious and heavy weapons to defeat russia s army. the kremlin dismissing any possibility of a diplomatic solution. especially as virtually every day we see civilians deliberately targeted by russian forces. they are attempting to make a push into the donbas region,