more than 40 people, including little children, are left there. for a month, we were eating, over 40 of us, six food tins. we had two buckets of soup, and that was it for the whole day. we were assured that there was a bomb shelter there, a well constructed one. we thought it s only for two to three days, and we ve been there since the 24th of february. translation: there | is no house any more, of course there isn t. it cannot be intact, as there were bombings every day. all the time we spent in the bunker, they were bombing. our correspondent laura bicker is in zaporizhzhia, where evacuees are heading. we know the convoy with around 100 women and children from the avozstal steelworks
tonight, hundreds of civilians including children are still trapped in the steel plant in the southern ukrainian city of mariupol as a ceasefire breaks down. some of those who managed to escape yesterday said living conditions inside the complex were brutal. translation: for a month we were eating - over a0 of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them, and that was it for the whole day. as russian troops try to advance in the east of the country, they re meeting fierce ukrainian resistance they re pushing slowly forwards against this town and a dozen others in the donbas region, but there s still no sign that the kremlin s forces are about to deliver some
the survivors from mariupol are allowed a break in the long awaited journey away from the front line. for a month we are eating, over a0 of us, six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them and that was it for the whole day. there is no house any more. of course there isn t. this is mariupol after two months of war. homes, play parks and cafes are now child and blasted rulings. tens of thousands of people are thought to have died. many of the survivors came here, the azovstal steel plant. as the city fell, pounded into smouldering ashes, ukrainian fighters used the underground chambers to stay and fight.