roman abromovich is the person people know the most in terms of oligarchs because of chelsea. the white house has refused to comment on its support leaving him off the sanctions list. so abromovich has not been sanctioned. there s a bunch of reasons potentially for that. one of the big ones is this this is a steel mill in colorado that he owns a piece of. a large piece. the wall street journal reported back in march, by the way, that abromovich, that ukraine wanted to hold off sanctioning him because he might acts as a go-between between russia and the united states. russia and ukraine haven t seen it yet. i want to focus on this drew griffin reported this. the reluctance to sanction abromovich may have something to do with this plant in pueblo, colorado. a massive steel mill that employs 1,200 americans. now abromovich made wait for
killed in action. we re going to have more on his case, picture there, in a moment. let s begin with nick paton walsh in eastern ukraine. we ve been following this mariupol attempted evacuation for some time. now in the midst of all that, russia chooses to bomb the heck out of the place. what s happening? is there any safe way out for those people? reporter: jim, this is really more of the same it seems sadly, doesn t it? each time these moments of hope when there seems to be some plan floated to get those children and injured caught under that steel plant out, something, of course, gets in the way. now there were hopes, and that was embodied in a statement from ukrainian president s office of some unspecified plan to get people out, that maybe the trips done by the u.n. secretary general to moscow where he met vladimir putin and to kyiv where he met volodymyr zelenskyy, that may have yielded some sort of agreement that could really bring that to light. but you have to cast doubt as
one in one spot or something, suddenly all of a sudden this area gets targeted by russian rockets. so maybe it s bad that they come back or it s good because they re dedicated to protecting their home in any way possible, like volunteering, delivering food to military people. so i really can t tell maybe it s good and bad, you know, 50/50. reporter: yeah. we re glad you re safe sorry, the connection s a bit off reporter: it s inspiring the world. and your commitment s inspiring the world. we know you re going right back in it. please do stay safe. and thank you. thank you. just remarkable to hear her say that she struggles, asking herself is it worth it, and being inspired by those around her. next, desantis takes on disney. florida officials vowing the taxpayers won t be on the hook. the latest on the standoff
here. but the fate of those left behind in mariupol so much attention rightly so about whether something possibly that should be so easy on humanitarian grounds could possibly happen today. jim? reporter: no question. as you mentioned, the military effect, as well. those forces freed up, they can apply more pressure to ukrainian forces already fighting on three fronts in the east. nick paton walsh, thank you so much. as jim mentioned, an american citizen has died fighting alongside ukrainian forces in ukraine. 22-year-old willie joseph cansell was working for a private military contracting company when he was killed on monday. there are dozens of americans fighting here, some very quietly, a lot of them former service members. we have more now from the pentagon. barbara, i ve met some people who come here. they feel this is their cause as well as the ukrainians cause. what more do we know about the case?
more optimistic, pessimistic? you talk about this in relation to the black lives matter and the george floyd movement and how perhaps 30 years from now we ll be having a conversation about that. where are we in the scheme of things when you first started this quest? the good news is that in those days it was a you had to fight to get people to understand there was a problem. that something was going on with policing in some neighborhoods that was much worse than maybe your neighborhood. the good news is you don t have to convince anyone there s a problem, you got to convince them there s a solution. there s a long way to say, but that is real progress. i think that what i want people to watch tonight, it s an amazing documentary because so much is the same, and yet so much has changed. and i think especially for the black lives matter folks, this is the first time you ever saw a video it never happened before. you never had a video. you guys watch it every day we re so used t