exactly what this is going to do to the dynamics in the rest of the country, that is going to be crucial. it had been said that russia needed to take mariupol so it could remove troops from there and continue its assault on the east of the country, in the donbas. if they are not going to fully take the city but simply put pparts of it under siege, can they withdraw the troops? what happens then? this is a significant development, the implications of which will be crucial over the coming weeks. we will get reaction to those claims in a moment. what about the people, the civilians? over 100,000 still in the city, there are reportedly up to 1000 people actually in this steel plant? yes, we understand a lot of those people are the families and friends of the soldiers who are fighting there. there have been requests to have a humanitarian corridor to get them out, yesterday there was talk for the wider city of getting up