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evacuated. what can you tell us this morning? reporter: yeah, john, two different evacuation operations going on right now in mariupol, on the one hand you have a general evacuation for the entire city that is still that is in russian controlled hands at this point, so buses still making their way according to ukrainian officials to get what is hoping to be hundreds if not thousands of ordinary mariupol citizens to the ukrainian held city of zaporizhzhia. that is ongoing, though progress is slow. you have the other operation centered on that azovstal steel complex, the last remaining pocket of ukrainian resistance inside the city. we saw dozens of people get out of that complex over the weekend. this morning, though, no word yet on if anyone has been able to get out. two different evacuation operations. meanwhile, inside that steel plant complex questions remain about the fighters that are also inside, will they eventually surrender to the russians? i think the answer to that quest
russian propaganda with a clear message to the last remaining defenders of mariupol. the video says we guarantee that we will save your lives and we will follow international laws to guarantee humane treatment. such will be the case, says the voice over, with this man, a captured ukrainian soldier dan zvonyk. he was captured at the azovstal steel complex, the last remaining pocket of resistance in the city. cnn has gio located the building behind them to an area northwest of the plant, a russian soldier detailing how they will be treated. as you are captured, he says, we will treat you with honor and with understanding. these videos were published on april 20th, five days later, dan zvonyk was dead. this picture of his face hauntingly lifeless was sent to his mother by officials in
slowly, what we re hearing from ukrainian officials is the hope by the end of the day today you could be talking about hundreds if not thousands of ordinary citizens of mariupol who could get on buses, make their way to zaporizhzhia and complete an evacuation officials have been trying to get under way at scale for weeks now. so, that is the one hand. on the other hand, you have the steel plant complex, the azovstal steel complex. it s the last remaining ukrainian pocket of resistance with the last ukrainian fighters are holed up in that for tress-like complex. alongside those fighters there are hundreds of civilians. for the first time since that became the focal point of attention in this war, we saw civilians get evacuated over the weekend. we re not talking about large numbers but dozens, maybe more than 100 civilians made their way out of that steel plant, also with the goal of getting to zaporizhzhia. that is also supposed to continue today. we re not exactly sure at this point w
three ton ones from the sky. reporter: so, of course, referencing bombs dropped from potentially russian warplanes. and what we have been seeing over the past few days is just a consistent shelling, a consistent bombardment of that steel complex, the azovstal steel complex, a massive complex that has really become the focal point of ukrainian resistance in that city. that is where ukrainian marines are, that s is where members of the azov battalion are, fighting units, and where hundreds of civilians have now been sheltering for weeks. it is really kind of a microcosm of what we re seeing across mariupol where you have fighting alongside, you know, ordinary civil glanz ians in mariupol tht get out. we re hearing of a humanitarian corridor that may or may not be open at this point. the mayor of mariupol is urging residents to use this