district. there is a cemetery there. we continue to investigate what did they do with bodies. we know exactly they do not bury them. as we are seeing, deputy mayor, this attack on this train station in kramatorsk, what is the effect of that going to be on people who are making that calculation to leave mariupol, to separate their families, and to leave other areas in the east? yeah. we know at the moment in mariupol, there is 130,000 citizens, civil citizens. they are still in mariupol. and all of them are like hostages. russia do not allow to humanitarian evacuation, to reach mariupol for any humanitarian reason and transfer humanitarian goods. so all the people are all living underground, in shelter, bomb shelter, in some spaces just to be survive. and this is their life day by
meantime, the red cross which has opinion trying to reach mariupol for days says the humanitarian crisis is only getting worse. on tuesday, around 500 residents were evacuated to zaporizhzhia which is in ukrainian control. ukrainian deputy prime minister says the number of evacuees now is around 1,200 but many in mariupol are still trapped. a red cross spokesperson described the situation there. we were hearing really tragic stories. people who had fled walking, leaving also part of the family behind in mariupol right now there is nothing, no water, no electricity, barely any connection. so, no way to be able to say also to the family that they are safe. no medication. and the the humanitarian situation is really growing worse and worse. millions have fled ukraine since the fighting began. but more spernlly displaced people wait now in towns along the border, hoping and waiting for better days. they are now faced with a
say that, quote, the icrc team tried over five days and four nights to reach mariupol and came within 20 kilometers of the city. but security conditions on the ground made it impossible to enter. in fact, russian forces detained the red cross from sunday to monday in a russian-occupied town. they are not allowing this neutral third-party aid organization to reach the city that the russian military has besieged now for over a month where more than 100,000 civilians are believed to be trapped under russian bombardment by land, sea, and air day and night. the question being why won t the russian military let the red cross into mariupol? and that is a question that i cannot answer. i can only speculate about. perhaps here s one answer or can lead us to an answer. this week a caribbean country, the commonwealth of dominica
remains extremely dangerous for them? the situation remains extremely intense, - dangerous for them? the situation remains extremely intense, we - dangerous for them? the situation | remains extremely intense, we are dangerous for them? the situation i remains extremely intense, we are in the middle of an international conflict or skirmishes are happening and heavy bombardment others, in order to ensure that this cease fire takes place, not only from willingness but mechanism and coordination to ensure that orders that are given in the capital reach out to all checkpoints and that is why it needs preparation, time and what it takes place, it will require many days for people to get out of mariupol in atjust 28 hours of 48 hours. such can last many days, the better and we continue to do everything to reach mariupol.
attempt for many days to reach mariupol. you say there was an attempt for many days to reach i attempt for many days to reach mariupol and your staff ran into some difficulties, some were detained. yes, i confirm that some of our staff were detained by the local police inside a city and after negotiations, they managed to get out might we managed to get them out. they understood our mission and were not well informed and we feel really relieved to have them out and then they were able to not only go back to zaporizhzhia but to go back to the mission and bring these thousands of people out and i m sure they will continue to do that. do you have teams in? b, they will continue to do that. do you have teams in? they will continue to do that. do you have teams in? a few weeks ago, the team is you have teams in? a few weeks ago, the team is running you have teams in? a few weeks ago, the team is running out you have teams in? a few weeks ago, the team is running out of you have