ukrainian military says russia s assault on the eastern part of the country is heating up as the next phase of russia s war gets under way. now a key town in that region. ukraine is accusing russia of shelling the town friday with cluster munitions which scatter over a wide area. in the small town outside of kyiv, drone video that you re looking at shows a really apocalyptic landscape left by russian shelling during the first phase of the war. ukrainian forces are being honored for holding the town and for blocking of course the russian advance on the capitol. and president volodymyr zelenskyy is vowing to keep fighting. have a listen. we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of the russian federation. the armed forces of ukraine continue to deter attacks by russian invaders in the east and south of the country. i m grateful to each of our defenders bravely holding. meanwhile, russia military now confirming its objective is to take full control
seen. well, we were in a couple days ago and the situation is also not very optimistic. because the mayor of the city is saying that russians declared the plans they want to surround the cities. and he is asking actively the citizens to leave the city because he is afraid that something could happen in mariupol can repeat in those cities. so, but at the same time, he is saying evacuation is mostly completed. people more than around 30% is staying in the city. and they don t want to leave and most of them again elder people
give us a sense of what the people went through inside mariupol as they were trapped ffr weeks on end. some of them spent 50, 56 days in the bomb shelter. and it s hard to imagine but this is something that they re going some of the people who are still there are going through this. those who managed to get out they are saying that there was no electricity, no water, can you imagine this? to live in the basement without water or food and electricity. some of them were brave to say at one point the citizens were have to loot shops and pharmacies to get the most essential food. and pharmaceuticals they need. some of people that we spoke
about short time ago, less than an hour ago, it says russia has made no major gains in the past 24 hours. air and sea forces have not established control in either domain. and troops face heavy nighting in mariupol. despite president putin claiming the city has been liberated earlier this week. ukraine says the discovery of more suspected mass graves near mariupol is further evidence of alleged russian war crimes. ukraine top prosecutor spoke earlier with cnn. and said investigating all of the atrocities is very hard right now. have a listen. it s a huge difficulty for us for ukrainian prosecutors to investigation because we are still in the war and we don t have access to the occupied territories. i m sure they try to hide everything that they tried to
make information in different way and of course they want after to say there were something else. we have been telling you about ukrainian soldiers and civilians hold up in inside mariupol sprawling steel factory. video from the troops shows them delivering supplies to women and children. huddled in the bomb shelter. and we have learned this just a few minutes ago, adviser to the mayor of mariupol says an evacuation column is planned for today from the city. there wasn t one yesterday. one is planned today. officials said about 100,000 civilians still remain trapped in mariupol. surrounded of course by russian forces. a bit earlier i spoke with stewart crawford a former british military officer and defense analyst, i asked him about whether president putin is moving the goal posts of this