i am rosemary church. cnn world headquarters in atlanta. i will have the other top stories, including clashes between israelis and palestinians after another week of deadly virus. will take you live to jerusalem. welcome to the show, everyone. it is 9:00 a.m. in ukraine. we begin where hope is finally arriving for hundreds of civilians trapped inside a bombed out steel plant and that the seas to city. on sunday, ukraine s president said more than 100 people were able to escape. we have just learned that city officials will be attempting another evacuation convoy soon. the u.n. and red cross are assisting in those evacuation efforts. local authorities had to put the operations on pause on sunday night for security reasons. that is what they are saying. the ukrainian commander said that russian forces began firing on the plant as soon as sundays evacuations were done. that is in mariupol. to the west, we witnessed hundreds of people fleeing their homes in russian occupied o
ramadan since the taliban took control. that report ahead. welcome to the show, everyone. it s 9:00 a.m. here in ukraine, and a glimmer of hope is emerging for people trapped in the port city of mariupol. after weeks under siege and numerous failed evacuation attempts around 20 civilians managed to leave on saturday. but that, of course, is just a tiny fraction of the thousands still stuck in the city. and conditions are only growing more desperate. ukraine s president says the eyes of the world are watching. have a listen. translator: all the leaders of the free world know what russia has done to mariupol, and russia will not go unpunished for this. cnn s scott mcclain has a closer look now at the devastation in mariupol and what comes next for the civilians as well as the soldiers still trapped there. reporter: from a distance smoke rises above mariupol s sprawling steel plant, but only from above is the true scale of the damage apparent. new satellite images show n
a senior u.s. official tells cnn that russian forces are making incremental advances there. meantime, another mass grave was discovered friday in the kyiv suburb of bucha. 900 civilians have already been found dead in the kyiv region, in the wake of russian forces pulling out. russia s focus is now on the eastern donbas region. ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, says moscow s aim is to kill everyone living there. translator: only if ukraine would stand, will they live. if the russian invaders succeed in realizing their plan, at least in part, they will still have enough artillery and aircraft to destroy the entire donbas just as they destroyed mariupol. the city, which is one of the most developed in the region, is simply a russian concentration camp in the middle of ruins. the situation, also, growing evermore dire for mariupol s last defenders holed up in that steel plant along with hundreds of civilians. for more, let s turn to isa soares in lviv, ukraine.
ukraine. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says russia must be trying to humiliate the un with strikes on kyiv while the secretary general was visiting the capitol. ukraine emergency service says ten people were injured from missile that hit an apartment building. zelenskyy says the attack took place right after he finished meeting with un chief who was not harmed chl during the visit, he spoke of the urgent need for humanitarian corridors. to evacuate civilians in the besieged southern port city of mariupol. a ukrainian official in the city says the steel plant has been hit the heaviest. with the heaviest air strikes yet. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers are there along with hundred of civilians. ukraine says an operation is planned today to get civilians out. that hasn t provided other details. of course we ll stay on top of that as soon as we have more details. possibly good news for the civilians. also visited the kyiv suburb of bucha. where scores of civilians were f
ukraine to some $50 billion since the start of the war. joe biden says investing in ukraine s freedom is a small price to pay to punish russian aggression and reduce the risk of future conflict. we re not attacking russia. we re helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. just as putin close to launch his invasion, he can make the choice to end this brutal invasion. our unity at home and with our allies and partners and sending an unmistakable message to putin. you will never succeed in dominating ukraine. now, we ll have a closer look at what the aid package entails in about 30 minutes or so from now. let s go to lviv in ukraine. that s where we re going to pick things up from here. reporter: very good morning to you, michael. ukrainian officials this hour are condemning russian strikes while he was wrapping up his visit to the capital on thursday. now, ukraine s emergency services one missile hit an apartment building, setting it on fire. as you can see