complete as joe biden and zelenskyy gear up for a virtual g-7 meeting in about five hours. trey yingst live in kyiv live reporter: we learned according to ukrainian officials, women, children, and elderly family members have been evacuated from the steel plant in the southern port city of mariupol. in total of 500 civilians were able to make it out of the facility during an evacuation corridor organized by the united nations and the red cross. the fate of estimated 2,000 ukrainian soldiers hundreds injured remains uncertain. volodymyr zelenskyy calls for safe passage out of the plant. he expressed russian troops occupying port cities like mariupol when he sat down this week with fox news griff jenkins. translator: key weapons cannot be occupied like a city of mariupol. we have a big issue.
to do their best in the toughest of circumstances. we were told oksana couldn t speak because of severe learning difficulties, but helena makes a connection. she says, in a full sentence, that her toe hurts. and then oksana spots our microphone. there s a flicker of the potential that could be unlocked. are you taking myjob, oksana? da! there is a call for these children to get more international support or the love and care of a family. but when so many ukrainians are running from war, it looks like thousands will still face lives of loss and waste, unseen and unheard. danjohnson, bbc news, in south western ukraine. meanwhile, moscow has intensified its assault on the huge azovstal steelworks in the southern port city of mariupol where at least 200 ukrainian civilians are still believed to be trapped. so far, the united nations has
this is bbc news. the headlines: human rights groups say the russian invasion of ukraine has led to thousands of disabled ukrainian children being abandoned in institutions that can t look after them. the bbc obtained exclusive access to an institution in western ukraine, where 22 disabled children had been left by their carers who fled to neighbouring countries. moscow has intensified its assault on the azovstal steelworks in the southern port of mariupol, where at least 200 ukrainian civilians are still believed to be trapped. the city s mayor says the russian forces are going all out to defeat the remaining ukrainian forces holed up in the plant. the american actress amber heard has taken to the stand for the first time in the defamation case brought against her byjohnny depp, claiming that herformer
first let s turn to the situation in the southern port city of mariupol. 0fficials there are reporting russian troops are storming the azovstal steel plant. mariupol has been besieged for weeks. it s mostly under russian control. the steel plant is the last place ukrainian troops are holding. as well as soldiers many of them wounded we know hundreds of civilians are still trapped there. to get the latest on what s happening here s an adviser to president zelensky. what they intend to do to annihilate the rest of our troops and the civilian population we still have there had been waiting for some people to get out and now they probably calculated that the people at this moment could take the steel plant by storm. we don t know exactly what their plans are but we know how they treated our people and other places where they managed to establish their occupation so there
ukraine. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says russia must be trying to humiliate the un with strikes on kyiv while the secretary general was visiting the capitol. ukraine emergency service says ten people were injured from missile that hit an apartment building. zelenskyy says the attack took place right after he finished meeting with un chief who was not harmed chl during the visit, he spoke of the urgent need for humanitarian corridors. to evacuate civilians in the besieged southern port city of mariupol. a ukrainian official in the city says the steel plant has been hit the heaviest. with the heaviest air strikes yet. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers are there along with hundred of civilians. ukraine says an operation is planned today to get civilians out. that hasn t provided other details. of course we ll stay on top of