cities putin will win because he clearly made it that he wants territory, not people. because what he s been doing in ukraine is i can say it s extermination of locals, it s denazification, as he says. he needs territory and wants this territory and it doesn t matter for him how many people will stay alive, and i mean locals, because he s been attacking mostly civilian infrastructure, and he has mariupol, and mostly destroyed kharkiv, a russian-speaking city, and he has moved more than 6,000 people forcibly moved 6,000 mariupol residents including children to russia, as
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the united states this hour. i m hala gorani reporting live from lviv, in ukraine. it is just past 6:00 in the morning in the western part of the country throughout this war-torn land, more than a day after mariupol, ukraine, rejected russian orders to surrender, bombs have been hammering that city. a ukrainian officer says they have been falling every ten minutes. president volodymyr zelenskyy said on wednesday monday that mariupol is being, quote, reduced to ashes. but that it will survive. the eu foreign policy chief calls this bombardment a massive war crime. the russian defense ministry, meanwhile, claims more than 62,000 mariupol residents have evacuated to russia in, quote, complete safety. but the city council says thousands were, in fact, taken there against their will. in the capital in kyiv, authorities say recent missile strike on a shopping center has killed at least eight people, and they are warning that that number could rise. russia says it attacked the mall
i had friends from russia, i don t believe i have any more. there are no excuses for this. an ambulance waits for a frail survivor of a merciless and failed russian attack. and ukrainian soldiers leave the battlefield with the swagger of victory. orla guerin, bbc news, irpin. aid workers have once again failed to take vital supplies into the besieged ukrainian city of mariupol and rescue civilians trapped there. the international committee of the red cross said several vehicles had been on their way but couldn t enter the port because conditions made it impossible . however, bus loads of mariupol residents who had already reached the town of berdyansk have now reached the relative safety of zaporizhzhia. those onboard the busses appear
been trying to evacuate people from mariupol, they were doing that in coordination with the ukrainian government. the plan was they would escort a convoy of at least a0 ukrainian buses and take with them medical supplies from zaporyzhzhia to mariupol but they failed as they tried to get there, they could not make it to the city and so instead, separately, mariupol residents who were trapped in the city that has been besieged by russian forces, and thousands of them took the risk themselves and ended up fleeing from mariupol to a town nearby still in russian held territory called berdiansk. and it is there a convoy of at least a0 ukrainian buses, 300 private cars, managed to get to these residents and take them to the relative safety of zaporyzhzhia. the fact is this is positive, you have president zelensky saying they have managed to save 3,000 people from a city that is without food