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corridor there for days now on end. and there are about 100,000 people in the city of mariupol, don, desperate to get out. now, inside that steel plant which has become kind of the last line of defense for ukraine, roughly around a thousand or so ukrainian soldiers, women and children are holed up inside having seen, by the way, no daylight for 50 plus days. i ve been speaking to employees of the steel plant, the very people who by the way, don, made the steel for the building you are in, hudson yards. they have managed to escape, the people i ve spoken to. they ve escaped the russian onslaught in mariupol, but they have been left scarred by loss as well as pain. used to live on mariupol s peace avenue. you want your city to remain the same as it was in your memory, he tells me. that city now lies in ruins, a
main avenues. and one avenue is called peace avenue, and the other is victory. behind me is an a hotel that sustained the attack. russia said it will reduce military operations. what change have you seen, if any, the last 24 hours? translator: this is yet another confirmation that russia always lies. they are saying about reducing intensity. they actually have increased the intensity of strikes. today we have had a colossal motor attack on the center of chernihiv. 25 people have been wounded and are now in hospital. they are all civilians. so whenever russia says something, this needs to be checked carefully.
From the time the rockets began to hit until his flight from the city, a man from Mariupol describes the progression of the Russian onslaught on the Donbas port, which has been one of the places that has been hardest-hit in the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.