You are watching cnn newsroom. welcome to the show everyone, it s 9:00 a.m. here in lyiv in ukraine. the russian military was seen as sporting two buses said to be carrying several evacuees to a town east of mariupol as you can see in the video there. the factory has been under bombardment, president zelenskyy is hoping to negotiate the safe evacuation of the soldiers still inside. translator: we are also working on diplomatic options to save our military who remain. mediators are involved,
Russia made the promise of evacuating civilians. that hasn t happened with the exception of friday we saw at least 50 civilians evacuated from mariupol. the russian military, as you can see there, was seen escorting those two buses said to be carrying some of those evacuees to the town east of mariupol. ukrainian officials say they were later able to travel to ukrainian-held territory. but you know, like i was saying, sprawling factory is being under constant bombardment. president zelenskyy said he is hoping to negotiate the safe evacuation of the soldiers. there are roughly 600 still inside. have a listen. translator: we are also working on diplomatic options to save our military who remain in azo azovstal. influential mediators are involved, including influential states. reporter: russia has been
The evacuees to a town east of mariupol. as we have been showing you for the last few days in fact, the sprawling factory has been under constant shelling and bombardment, president zelenskyy said that he is pursuing diplomatic options for the safely evacuation of the soldiers inside. on friday, u.s. president joe biden announced $150 million in additional military aide, but warns that the u.s. is running low on what it is send without additional approval from congress. 200 soldiers have been trained to operate equipment that arrived in the region. on the latest on the dire situation in mariupol. reporter: a ukrainian soldier in shocked silence, his arm shredded and burned his vehicle hit by a shoulder grenade launcher. another victim in the bloody