We re continuing to follow this developing news out of mariupol this morning. ukrainian officials say russian forces are blocking part of mariupol, near the besieged azovstal steel plant, where hundreds of civilians and military folks are currently sheltered. this is the last stand, the last holdout, and president zelenskyy s office says there is an operation to evacuate civilians from the plant that had been planned for today. joining us now is mariupol s deputy mayor sergi orlov to talk about this. we re hearing this from president zelenskyy s office about this operation to evacuate civilians, planned for today. that did not seem to be happening when we spoke with the commander there at the steel plant. what can you tell us? hello. we as a city also make this
Of course, their life is awful. they could not come outside. there is lack of everything, lack of water, food, lack of medicine, lack of any social help. so they need to be humanitarianly corridor as soon as possible. it is heart breaking what we re seeing. we understand from the commander there, over 60 children age 4 months to 17 are there. deputy mayor orlov, thank you for being with us. we ll keep an eye on the steel plant and the plight of people trapped there. thank you. thank you. what the u.s. is now learning about the execution of ukrainians who were trying to surrender near donetsk. and the united states, what one top republican believes is driving democratic talk of canceling student loan debt. allergies s don t have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stotos your body from overreacting to allergens s al season long.
Military. and the russians, we talked about this in the past, john, certainly seemed to have some pretty big problems with their logistics, resupplying their troops and quite frankly outside of kyiv, they are pretty exposed in some of those positions while the ukrainians, of course, very much here entrenched on the outskirts of the city, john. right, frederik pleitgen for us this morning in kyiv, a city under curfew. thank you for your reporting. joining us now is the deputy mayor of mariupol, sergi orlov. if you can hear me, i know how difficult it has been in your city, president zelenskyy has said it has been reduced to ashes. tell me what it is like there right now. hello. in the moment, each day mariupol is destroyed more and more. until now, estimation 90% of our infrastructure is damaged and destroyed and at least one