ordeal no 12-year-old should have to ever endure. she wasn t safe like she was now in kyiv, but in a hospital run by russian backed acseparatists. when the russians first invaded, her dad was still alive. her mom died just after she was born and when russian bombs started to fall, sthey sheltere in a neighbors basement. but they hit the house where we were staying, she says. we were buried in the cellar. then the rescuers took us out of the wreckage. her dad did not emerge. now an orphan, she started to walk to try to find safety amidst chaos and then another explosion from a mine. my friend saw something on the ground, she says, and she hit it accidentally with her boot. the military came after the explosions and took us to a hospital because we were bleeding, but in some ways, her
started in sedgwick county and traveled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path, there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. i mean, the video is extraordinary. so far, only a handful of injuries are reported. more on this story in a moment. but first, we re watching new developments over seas in ukraine. ukrainian forces withstanding russia s mercyless shelling in lieu luhansk and donetsk. new video shows a submarine firing cruise missiles at ukrainian targets. this as we re seeing new images showing the devastation at a steel plant in mariupol. it s where a last stand of ukrainian soldiers and civilians are hunkered down, surrounded.
people who may be trapped under there and still be alive, frankly. yesterday, the president, ukrainian president zelenskyy announced there was an operation underway in order to evacuate people, but he gave no details and nothing seemed to materialize from that. last night, cnn spoke with the ceo of the company who runs the plant and he said he has not had contact with anyone there for the last three weeks because there s inadequate communications there, but what he did say is they have managed to link up with some people who have managed to escape. here s what they told him. they re telling us it s a humanitarian disaster. the city is being destroyed. basically, beautiful, thriving city was turned into a concentration camp by the russians in less than two months. you can say it s genocide which is happening there.
november, fred. it s in washington time, crisis time, that s an eternity. many things can transpire. the administration understandably have taken extraordinary measures to isolate russia politically. they ve created a sanctions package which makes russia the most sanctioned country in the world. certainly in recent decades in terms of the application of s sanctions, but there s a certain reality. the president of indonesia is not joint sections. of the ten most populated countries of the world, only one is on board to isolate and sanction russia. important countries like india, brazil, mexico. the israelis are hitting with regard to protecting their interests in syria. saudi arabia and the emirates refuse to increase oil production because they don t want to alienate the russians.
reporter: strong words. even if the civilians who are trapped under there manage to get out through diplomacy, through the u.n. or red cross, that still leaves the soldiers there who say the russian troops have begun to storm the facility on the ground. the mayor s office said it would likely take a miracle to get them out and they say they will not leave without weapons in their hands. thank you so much. we re also now hearing from the family of an american citizen killed while fighting in ukraine. 22-year-old willie joseph cancel, a former u.s. marine, died earlier this week. for willie joseph cancel, this wasn t his war. the 22-year-old had already served his country in the marines, but after russia invaded ukraine, cancel s family says he felt the need to leave tennessee and join the fight. even before he left to go to ukraine, you know, he was proud