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january 6th select committee, how her hours of testimony may actually end up being key to the investigation. let s go outfront. good evening, i m kaerin burnet the breaking news, russia intensifying assault on a sprawling steel plant where thousands of ukrainians are holed up. i just spoke to a commander there who said the strikes have been literally nonstop over the past few hours yet despite the attacks ukrainian fighters say they still hope to evacuate several hundred people which includes still in that plant, commander tells me, 20 children. as you can see, though, there is heavy black smoke rising over the area where the plant is located. it is, of course, in the area of mariupol, and tonight, russia is cla claiming putin s forces reached the outskirts of the plant and carrying out a step-by-step clearing operation. well captain pladomar at the plant pushed back against russia s claims. translator: all of the buildings that they re showing or might be showing, ....
the strongest possible response to russia s aggression following her visit to kyiv and talks with president zelenskyy. this hour we ll discuss the war with the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine as american diplomats are now back on the ground inside ukraine. our krornts standing by in ukraine, in russia and neighboring moldova as well as in washington. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, a top ukrainian commander says about 200 civilians remain trapped inside that mariupol steel plan under bombardment by russian forces. they are so desperate to join the first wave of evacuees who did make it out live, hoping to arrive in the city of zaporizhzhia. nic peyton walsh is on the scene for us. what can you tell us about the desperate conditions in mariupol tonight. reporter: certainly, wolf. expectations have been so high today that we will begin to see here in ukraine, the first wave of ....
kate, one of the important messages here and we heard it from lloyd austin in his opening remarks was a show of unity. not just from europe, not just from nato but from the western world and beyond. more than 40 countries coming here, not only sitting together but discussing what can be done to support ukraine and support what many see here as an international rules-based order. that s what is at stake here and they ve made that clear. this is bigger than just the u.s. or the uk or ukraine. it s the world order that s at stake and that s why this is such a fundamental discussion and that was clear in an interview my colleague jim sciutto just wrapped up with the chairman of the joint staffs, general mark milley and what we heard from austin. at the end of the day, what we want to see, what i think the policy of all of the governments together is a free and independent ukraine with their territory intact and their government standing and the russian aggression has be ....
in terms of their ability to win, the first step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win, we believe that they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support. and we re going to do everything we can, continue to do everything we can to ensure that that gets there. we re seeing that when it comes to russia s war aims, russia is failing, ukraine is succeeding. we don t know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. the british ministry of defense said that russia has made minor advances in its push to take over the east. the uk also found that russia has, quote, yet to achieve a significant breakthrough. but if vladimir putin s forces continue to destroy more ukrainian buildings and lives. cnn just learning of a gas explosion in a government building in the luhansk region. officials say no one there su ....
on saturday, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy warned the city was in the grips of a humanitarian crisis. here he is. translator: the situation in mariupol remains as severe as possible. just inhuman. this is what the russian federation did. deliberately did. and deliberately continues to destroy cities. russia is deliberately trying to destroy everyone who is there in mariupol. russian strikes have continued to hammer other areas in southern and eastern ukraine. officials in the northeastern city of kharkiv say at least two people were killed and 18 injured after cruise missile attack. to the south, officials in the luhansk region say russian strikes damaged nearly a dozen infrastructure facilities including an oil refinery. ukrainian officials say the renewed attacks on southern ukraine are in retaliation for the sinking of a russian warship in the black sea. meanwhile, the russian military said saturday it shot down a ukrainian aircraft delivering western m ....