option of delivering planes is somewhat imminent? this is one of the top priorities of our negotiations with our allies and with other partners not within the united states but with european countries. we have very positive signals from different countries that they hear us, they understand the urgency, and they said there is readiness for their governments to move forward. so aberration is critical. we see that in the last couple weeks. we see that in mariupol because it is bombarded by aberration and artillery. i thank the united states for their support and the u.s. government and congress for their support, it s valuable,
mar mariupol. charles machel tweeted this picture as he arrived in ukranian today. he also was in the devastated town of bovayvanko. he said there cannot be peace without justice. this comes as the eu are discussing their sixth round of sanctions against russia. where do those stand and what s included in these? the question is will all be included, how will it be included, which countries are currently blocking a boycott of russian oil. hungary, we know, is opposed, speaking yesterday with the belgian finance minister, also the deputy prime minister here. i asked him about that, obviously being an eu nation, how the eu moves forward on the
up. we ve seen some video and according to a regional official from ukraine, some buses were brought in and it appears that some unknown number of people were able to get out. that said, we re just looking at some information now here in lviv from the ukrainian deputy prime minister who said that the planned evacuation did not go as planned. exactly what that means, how many people got out, we don t have those answers as of yet. it is certainly though we can say not the kind of huge operation that some officials were hoping for. thousands of people leaving, that does not appear to be the case. and keep in mind talking about the overall scale here, some 100,000 citizens in and around mariupol need to be evacuated. meanwhile the situation at that azovstal steel plant is very dire. i want to play you what ukraine says is captured audio from an uncrypted communication from a russian ground commander and a
steel factory in mariupol where civilians are trapped and trying to escape. local police say as many as 1,000 people including many children have been living there hoping for some protection from russia s shelling. vladimir putin s forces have surrounded the place and the new deadline has passed for the people inside to get out before azo azovstal, the name of the steel factory, is destroyed. the situation is so desperate that one brigade commander is asking for a third country to come in and evacuate the civilians and his team who are defending the plant. translator: this is our statement to the world. it may be our last statement. we might have only a few days or even hours left. the enemy s units are ten times larger than ours. they have supremacy in the he artillery and units lotioned ed the ground. we appeal to the world leaders to help us.
colleague. [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: cnn can t independently verify the veracity, but if it is to be believed, a russian commander giving insight into the view of russia, that constant bombardment that that commander is talking about, that is what that russian commander is talking about. that is the situation on the ground in mariupol. matt rivers, thank you. ahead next hour, we ll speak with a member of the mariupol city council for the latest on what is happening there. the u.s. unveiled its latest round of sanctions going after russia. kylie atwood is with us now. tell us about them. yeah, the treasury department rolling out these new sanctions on russia, clearly tightening the screws here when it comes to continuing to impose a cost on russia for their invasion of