this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world and in the united, i am michael holmes at the cnn sis center in atlanta. a sprawling steel factory in mariupol is all that remains of ukrainian forces defending the tra teenagic-port city. they are surrounded by russian troops, but have refused to surrender amid the nonstop shelling and gun battles. russian president vladimir putin has now ordered troops to impose a blockade that, quote, even a fly can t get through, rather than storm the facility. besides sheltering the ukrainian fighters, the kmeks has also been home to hundreds of men, women, and chirp children who are reportedly running out of food and water. the factory owner describes the
to guard our nation, and so they re filling sandbags, they have steel, they have spikes, all kinds of things, barriers, to create a checkpoint of folks coming in out of their neighborhood. there is a fear of russian saboteurs or spies in their midst. none of that has been confirmed but it is on their minds. this is a country or part of the country that is watching carefully what is happening, in places like kharkiv and other places that are under bombardment right now. and they want to be on guard. so it is fascinating to talk to them, they feel this sense of duty, a sense of national pride. we saw it yesterday with people a factory owner who turned his steel factory into a place now making war materials. so it is very reminiscent of world war ii. it is happening here. it is striking to me in the leadup to this war, you had president zelenskyy, a lot of people in ukraine who were very calm, didn t necessarily believe
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