of mariupol, after being given security guarantees by both sides in the conflict, in the hope of getting residents out of the city. tens of thousands of people are trapped there, following weeks of russian bombardment. previous attempts to establish humanitarian corridors in south eastern ukraine haven t worked because ceasefires didn t hold. from lviv, anna foster sent this report. this is what weeks of shelling has done to mariupol, which used to be home to 400,000 people. the red cross says its convoy is moving closer to those still trapped inside. but it didn t get permission to bring badly needed humanitarian aid. victoria and her two children fled to this shelter in lviv from mariupol. they were hiding with hundreds of others in the theatre there when it was bombed. her two year old daughter anastasia was buried under the rubble. how did you escape from mariupol? translation: we were in a car
still for the kremlin is to de nazify ukraine. you know, we are hearing the same belligerent language again and again here. and i think it s really important to remember that the kremlin s aims in ukraine haven t changed. they don t want ukraine tojoin nato. while we ve seen there might be some agreement on that from the government in kyiv. they want those territories in eastern ukraine recognised as independent. or you could read that coming under russian control. they want crimea recognised as russian. and then there are vladimir putin s broader aims. he has consistently cast ukraine as a country and its government, nato and the west as the enemies of russia. and i think we have to bear that in mind when we look at what s happened today. the russia ukraine joining the russia ukrainejoining nato is very much a red line. but ukraine joined the european union is not. we know that has been a long standing goal for ukraine know that has been a long standing goalfor ukraine going back to k
it made mother russia a lot smaller though it is still pretty huge too. it also sits on the border separating russia from europe. ukraine is a word that literally means border land and the southern part of it stretches across the black sea, a key water route for ferrying oil and natural gas to europe, which is russia s biggest customer for the stuff that keeps the lights on. curb sha and ukraine haven t been the friendliest of neighbors since ukraine declared itself an understood pen dindep. ukraine also had a lot of old the old soviet union s military nukes which they ve destroyed when they went independent and to the delight of western fortune hunters ukraine boasts a lot of its own oil and natural gas which partly explains why modern day ukraine is so central
so you re not going to say whether you met with him? when i was in warsaw i had a singular focus. my focus was singly on the work that we have done. it sounds like you re not going to say. when i was in warsaw, we were working diligently to accomplish the mission. mike pompeo was on the phone call that is going to be the core of the impeachment of donald trump, the phone call to the new president of ukraine. do you trust mike pompeo to do anything to protect the state department from donald trump? no i mean, joy, this saddens me that i have to say this. we wrote this letter to secretary pompeo so our hope when we wrote it it was before this interview, which by the way i have to praise the journalist because i read the transcript. i haven t seen it, but she was really asking great questions, respectfully and he was dodging all of them. and that s disturbing because if you dodge that question, then you re implicitly admitting yes, i talked to, you know, giuliani.
economic responses from the kremlin at those stage. vladimir putin his venture into syria, many see, as a response to how things in ukraine haven t gone well for him. moving into syria, they had a big initial launch, a lot of state media pumping up their success but downing of the airliner over the sinai. now they ve lost their first two airmen, one marine, one pilot, possibly more in this instant. it s not going particularly well. but perhaps, i think, many hope this may focus putin against isis. a nato member blasting a rush be jet out of the sky awakens all of putin s animosity towards nato bloc. we could see more complications in a very complicated piece of airspace. alarming headline when a nato member shoots down a russian plane, only over turkish airspace for 30 seconds. is that enough time, warning to give to the russian jet?