bombardment of that city. details of that this hour. i m rosemary church in atlanta with the latest on the biden administration fighting back about the mask rule taken away from public transportation. reporter: we begin in mar mariupol. russian shelling continues. negotiations are underway to try to open up more evacuation corridors. this is what they hope to publish in terms of evacuations so far. russian forces were not able to adhere to a cease-fire for a much larger humanitarian
corridor. president zelenskyy said they do not have what they need to defend the city. translator: according to our information, they are keeping 120,000 people in besieged mariupol. i m confident with the combined efforts we can bring all of those responsible to justice and i promise you we ll find them all. reporter: now to a bleak assessment by the governor. russian troops are destroying everything in their path. the governor says 80% of lieu hans k is under control. u.s. defense officials say russia has added 70 ba tallian tactical groups. the rs 28 dubbed the satin 2 by nato is capable of carrying a
may, that they usually arrange their victory parades on this date and their sabbath. mar mariupol is a significant date for them. that s the issue. you yourself suffered immeasurably at the hands of putin, poisoned by forces friendly to him, perhaps in retaliation for your role in the orange revolution. do you believe that putin or other russian leaders will ever be held accountable for their alleged war crimes here? translator: i think if we want to secure a proper world order, and we need to think about how we re going to live in the future with such a fascist state as russia, a terrorist state that organizes and finances terrorism around the
of times, they have a complete advantage, weapons, manpower. what have they done that could lead to any confidence that they could safely oversee a humanitarian corridor that would not result in the deaths of more innocent civilians and more soldiers who had already surrendered? now, the state department official speaking to cnn said a nato ally could be involved in that but said this kind of thing has fallen apart before. it s really up to the russians to allow this to happen, this as we re awaiting word, bianna, that this corridor that opened up a few hours ago now and if civilians of mariupol are safely being evacuated. it s so hard to get information because of the lack of a communication infrastructure because of this fighting. that would be nice if they were able to create some sort of corridor to get natives out of
falls. they cannot lose mariupol and the land branch because it really is the way they save crimea, along with that area just to the north there, kherson, which is where the water supply to crimea comes in. listen, securing the land is one thing. securing the people, as you can see from the battle that s ensued there in mariupol, is quite different, and these residents in ukraine did not welcome russian soldiers with open arms. let me ask you about the news of another $800 million weapons package coming from the united states. what do you think that will do in terms of getting some of that hard armor on the ground there in the hands of ukrainians as they are getting ready for this next massive battle? the real key is not just the overflow into ukraine. i think the u.s. logistics system is working that really well. it s really what happens to those weapons once they get into ukraine and how do they get to