6.5 million people internally displaced and the 13 million people currently in regions hit hardest by the war in ukraine. cities like mariupol and sumi are facing what the u.n. described as critical and potentially fatal shortages of food, water and medicine. we re still learning more about the drama theater in mariupol that russia bombed despite clear markings children were inside. 130 people have been rescued but 1300 people are in the shelter. a flee cities like mariupol, many are heading west. in lviv, local officials said several aircraft hit buildings. it s ukrainian infrastructure a detail nbc news can t confirm. residents of lviv are scared the war will soon be at their
invasion, and residents are staying put in makeshift shelters underground inside the metro stations. matt bradley is out of lviv crane, and nbc news correspondent, courtney kube. are they holding? reporter: we don t know, katy. so far we don t have solid word on whether or not there were a lot of people able to get out. the only successful one so far was yesterday in the northern town of sumi, and there s new
know, for evacuations and to supply deliveries was opened up this weekend. that was a moment of good news. it comes of after days of indiscriminate attacks on eastern ukrainians from the if russians. but that doesn t necessarily mean that everyone has been safe. translator: some people, i are not give their names, were involved in getting information and evacuating people. they found themselves under fire. there are casualties among them, unfortunately. they were evacuating people. reporter: yeah, we keep hearing stories like this. or for those who just cannot leave, things are even worse. the u.n. is reporting that residents in mariupol and sumi are facing potentially fatal short shortage ofs shortages of food, water and medicine. o december is odesa is pleading for food for their residents.
to resupply the russian forces down there so they re moving further north and east. that s the front people need to be focused on. that s where the russian forces are having more success. if you can stand by, i want to bring erin mclaughlin in to the conversation. erin, let me go to you in lviv. talk me through what we re seeing on the ground inside ukraine right now. reporter: hey, jasmine. i ve been talking to people trapped in cities or besieged by russian forces. the common theme is anxiety and despair. i was talking to a woman in the city of sumi, about 18 miles from the russian border. she arrived in the city to visit her mother and her grandmother just before the war broke out,
came to our city and damaged our infrastructure and killed innocent people. as for the food and medicine, we don t have any of. harris: ukrainian woman trapped by the russian shelling speaking of all she has endured and that of thousands of others suffering at this point. many without food, water, electricity for more than a week. it is day 13 of this war putin has waged on ukraine. efforts to put in place cease fires along humanitarian corridors have largely failed and russia s indiscriminate release of artillery, power against citizens, is unspeakable. ukraine says buses of civilians have left the battered city of sumi in the country s northeast. ukraine s foreign ministry said russian forces have broken another cease-fire agreement and gone after an evacuation route in the besieged city of