defended by our brave service men from the ukrainian armed forces and the national guard. so, we re waiting to save their lives. we re waiting to see them reach zaporizhzhia cisafely, on the w, they collected people from surrounding areas from the village, we ve been able to join these people to the evacuation efforts. so we re waiting for news to see whether these people, these buses, have reached ukraine-controlled territory. an estimated 100,000 people remain in the city. what s the current situation in mariupol for those civilians remaining? translator: the situation is such that the russian army is holding more than 100,000 people captive in mariupol. they are using them for hard labor to clear the rubble that these russian troops created, by their bombardment, to dig graves, mass graves for the people that the russian army killed. over 20,000 people were killed.