about 200 civilians remain traps inside the sprawling azovstaal plant. ukraine s president says authorities are doing everything they can to get people out. translator: russian shelling and assault on as-zovstal does t stop. but civilians need to be taken out. women, children. many children who are still there. just imagine this hell and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling. bombing. and constant death nearby. mr. zelenskyy said evacuations from the southern part city are ongoing, but he didn t say how many people left mariupol on thursday. the red cross says more than 300 people are believed to be from mariupol and other nearby areas arrived in zaporizhzhia on wednesday. a ukrainian commander says wounded soldiers inside the azovstal steelworks are dying in terrible agony but those who are able are fighting to defend the plant. more now from cnn s isa soares. reporter: ukrainian soldiers trapped in the azovstal plant sing the army s battle hy
targeting the ship beyond that or simply intel here being shared? reporter: so those same sources that you mentioned said that it is not clear whether the u.s. knew that the ukrainians were planning to bomb the ship, but either way the americans were not involved with the decision making there. the pentagon is pushing back on this, and they put out a very carefully worded statement, the spokesman john kirpby saying tht we didn t provide ukraine with specific targeting information for the moskva. the russians of course have been accusing the americans of engaging in a proxy war and this event raises all kinds of legitimate questions about where the u.s. draws the line in terms of intelligence sharing and helping ukraine more broadly. those sources say that the u.s. will not share intelligence on any locations or any potential targets within russia, on russian territory, nor will they share the location of any senior military officials as well. now, the other big event here m
including president biden, will hold a virtual meeting with ukraine s president zelenskyy on sunday just before the key date of may 9th, which is victory day in russia. let s begin with sarah sidener. what can you tell us about the operation in mariupol? reporter: a third and fresh rescue is under way to try to get to the people still trapped in the dark, dank maze under the steel plant. the problem is the bombardments are continuing, even after russia said there would be a cease-fire to allow people to exit. russia has once again lied about what it is going to do. in the meantime, there are bloody battles being waged and some of them are inside the plant because a commander said russian forces have made it inside that plant and there is fierce fighting that continues to go on. this is all happening as people watch and wait for may 9th and that is when russia celebrates v-day. they believe that there is a real effort from russia to try and crush mariupol, to try and take it
quickly. well, i ve never been really enraged by a supreme court decision. i have disagreed with a supreme court i ve strongly disagreed with the supreme court i have been disappointed by supreme court decisions. but most of the time, i understood the legal reasoning on needs shied and believe the decision-making process was legitimate, most of the time. but not until this week have i ever felt when it is like to have a constitutional right revoked from all of us, and it is, first of all a feeling. before we get to the analysis of the decision, we feel the pain of the decision. and the agonies that the supreme court decision is going to inflict. i just want to have a word with the man of america, here. this is a constitutional right that belongs to all of us, that benefits all of us. we have a constitutional right to the services to help provide these services for our daughters for our granddaughters for our sisters and wives for girlfriends we have that we men have that cons
the latest on the assessment by u.s. and western officials that vladimir putin may soon formally declare war on ukraine. kaitlan collins reported earlier that the decision could come in the next week in order to coincide with the national holiday in russia commemorating victory in world war ii. it would allow vladimir putin to mobilize reserves, draft more conscripts, and address a manpower shortage. we ll talk with a top congressional democrat who has returned from a trip to ukraine where he and others met with president zelenskyy has part of a delegation. we have the latest state of play on the battlefield and russians targeting children. we start just outside of kyiv. images now coming in giving us a look at a battered town that you may not have heard of, but its defense played a crucial role in the defense of the city and perhaps the country as a whole. matt rivers has details. reporter: at the entrance to the ukrainian village of ma shun, an effigy twists in the breeze