from their wounds, some apparently have gangrene and are really in a dire condition. but alongside them several hundred civilians, maybe 1,000, including members of theirfamilies, but other civilians too, so the international community, the united nations secretary general, when he was here in ukraine visiting president putin in russia, that has been one of his main aims, to get some sort of evacuation operation under way in mariupol, humanitarian corridors under the auspices of the un and the red cross, so it does look like finally after so much suffering we are seeing the start of that evacuation but only a few people so far, according to the russians, have been evacuated, there are many more in a desperate condition who need to get out of that steelworks in mariupol.
ukrainian resistance. look, i mean, a major announcement for the president s office today that an evacuation operation is planned in that plant for today or was planned, it s difficult to ascertain because in your conversation right there he didn t seem to have any knowledge of it and we re also hearing reports from the ground that the russians are blocking access to that plant in mariupol. so obviously a very important situation, we re trying to get the details as best we can right now. yeah, we have to focus on those civilians, right, and the children. you are talking about kids from 4 months old to 17, he said there s dozens of them, about 60 of them. you know, their lives are hanging in the balance here, they already are and will continue to. they are really at the breaking point here. there is a new warning from the kremlin to the west as more areas under russian control and inside of russia itself are coming under attack. the prime minister of estonia will join us on how he
the resistance against russian occupation. and if they have been, then their fate becomes unknown literally to anyone in the world. we assume that they are taken into interrogation centers, into torture prisons, and that they may be even killed. and that is not an evacuation operation absolutely not. in terms of being killed, this is terrifying with mariupol s city council saying that a second mass grave has been found outside that city. this one could hold the bodies of at least 1,000 residents. this comes a day after the images were released of a different mass grave outside the city. that one could contain as many as 9,000 bodies. it s horrifying to think about. what are you hearing about this? it s absolutely tragic. and the evidence, of course, we will be able to collect and to say exactly what was going on there once the city is
nothing to do with the prime minister, never at any stage did he get in touch with me about it, so the claims that have been made in e mails from the foreign office, who were not responsible for the actual evacuation operation, i don t know where they ve come from, but they certainly don t show the reality, which was i was in charge, the prime minister never asked me, it was nonsense. that s the defence secretary. while this is another headache, is in it for borisjohnson? as well as the whole reporting to parties that we are still waiting for her, this leaked e mailfrom a are still waiting for her, this leaked e mail from a whistle blower about that evacuation. just explain to us why this is politically significant. if to us why this is politically significant. to us why this is politically significant. to us why this is politically siunificant. i. , i. significant. if you cast your mind back to august significant. if you cast your mind back to august when significant. if you cast
reporter: she follows quietly as victoria is carried off the train. they are now away from their home that was filled with such love. a home and family that may no longer be. and, brianna, once the families and the children arrived here to warsaw, they were carried off to different hospices. some are in warsaw itself. others are around the country. and the medical team has not stopped. they re trying to get together a list to run another evacuation operation into ukraine. and the plan is to keep on doing this. and using that train not just to evacuate critically ill children but not to injure civilians outside of the ukrainian battlefield. and it really seems as if everyone on this side the border is also getting ready to potentially deal with the worst.