Or be eliminated. that ultimatum was rejected. yet another example of ukrainian resistance. russian troops have surrounded the city for some time. today some say mariupol will be closed for exit and entry and the men remaining there will be, quote, filtered out clarissa ward is live in dnipro where a russian missile struck overnight. clarissa, tell us what it is like there. reporter: well, again, it had been relatively calm here before, brianna. and life is still going about as normal. this town has been hit before. but as you mentioned, two missile strikes hitting on the outskirts of the city. authorities saying it was some kind of infrastructure facility, slightly vague language. two people injured, nobody killed. but everybody is seeing what is happening in the east, what is projected to get much worst in the east with president zelenskyy saying the battle for
From some in that group, the females there. jake? and christiane, there are these new images out of mariupol that show just the massive level of destruction there. we know, of course, tens of thousands of ukrainians remain trapped in the city. these are civilians. what more can you tell us? i mean looking at those images, it s stalingrad, isn t it? it s just absolutely awful. today i spoke to a red cross spokesman here. they ve been trying for days to get humanitarian aid in and civilians out. it has not happened yet. they ve been prevented from doing it. they keep trying and they will keep trying to do it, and they have to take something into the people there who now the local authorities who remain say mariupol is really now teetering on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe. and as we know it remains very firmly in the russian sight in order for them to build that strategic bridge between the
. we have been reporting on the horrors happening in the ukrainian city of mariupol. much of it has been destroyed by constant russian shelling. the latest targets a giant shopping mall now sitting completely in ruins and an apartment complex really completely destroyed. hundreds and hundreds of residents forced to run for their lives. city officials say mariupol suffering 50 to 100 russian attacks every day. i want to bring in the leader of the mariupol state university. thank you for joining us. you described mariupol as hell on earth. your house was right at the front lines, no water no, food, no electricity. please tell us about your last days there. yeah. as you have mentioned, it was really a tale because the d attacks from different kinds of