blockade, and he says that the hope is, of course, that he won t you won t let any flies coming in or out of that azovstal steel plant. that last holdout there and ukraine is being defiant in that steel plant. that is in mariupol. i ll take you slightly west to the southern port city of odesa, we have seen just more shelling today. we have seen one building really collapse today, being hit by intense shelling, looking at some of the images and there have been casualties. eight people killed, 18 wounded. of those eight killed, one was a 3 month baby girl. we have a photo of this baby girl, when this war started, the baby girl was just 1 month old. hearing of the news reporting on the news, president zelenskyy yesterday was so emotional. he was scathing of it.
every member of our armed forces can be proud of the fact of our country srosty and the skill and service of our military helping to repel russia in ukraine. to beat back putin s savagery and trying to seize ukraine s capital and wipe out their government. now we have to accelerate that assistance package to help prepare ukraine for russia s offensive that s going to be more limited in terms of geography but not in terms of brutality, not in terms of brutality. the president s announcement came hours after ukrainian president zelenskyy once again made an urgent plea for assistance from the u.s. and other western allies, wanting more than what we re doing. with the mayor of kharkiv reporting intense shelling, russians claim to have 80% of the luhansk region. the last remaining ukrainian troops and hundreds of civilians
what do you know, what do you sources tell you about the situation in mariupol? i know you re not there, it s difficult reporting, but what have you learned from ukrainian officials? reporter: well, we actually spoke with i got some videos from a major general who is a marine, in mariupol. he sent these videos to a couple news organizations. he was saying that, you know, time is ticking. this was before vladimir putin the clock is ticking. excuse me. that was before vladimir putin announced he wasn t going to be moving into the underground bunkers underneath the plant. it served very well for the soldiers and estimated thousand civilians underneath there. they say that they are, you know, subsisting on very little food. the russians have hit some hospitals. as i mentioned, there are a
northern ukraine and will apply those lessons to the next attacks. wii we re seeing video. these strikes caused the first wartime deaths inside lviv. the attack killed 7 people. it injured several others, including a child. many the south, ukraine is still trying to hold onto that port city of mariupol amid intense shelling. ukraine rejected a re ed a russ deadline to surrender. what do we know about those attacks? well, four different missile strikes, and as you mentioned,
intense shelling, it has been the scene of at least one killing, a roman who was killed about 100 meters in that direction during a volley of fire that resulted here, the damage you can see to a family s home. now, this is a family and i don t know if you can hear it, but there was another shell landing in the distance. there has been a steady drumbeat, a kind of relentless thunder all day of shelling. this one happened 48 hours ago. mercifully, no one was actually killed which is, frankly, a miracle. verane and her daughter veronica were in here. you can see the shrapnel that hit the building. it did not go through the walls. here s the reaction you can get when a single artillery shell hits a civilian home. that, miraculously, is an exit