how they go. thanks so much. frustrations boiling over, as residents of shapg high have been lockdown for weeks now, thanks to china s zero-covid policy and it is taking a massive toll on residents and ex-pats with no clear end on when the lockdown will be lifted. the government reported 11 more deaths on thursday. david culver with the details. reporter: test positive for covid-19 in shanghai? and chinese officials want you out of your home and sent to a government-quarantine facility, assuming there is space. there is nowhere for them to send me. i am not allowed to go in the hospital. and i have to day stay here. reporter: manner josh vaughn taken to a pop-up tent outside a shanghai hospital. this is supposed to be like a nice hospital. and this this is where i was
reporter: no matter bl whether the russians cannot or will not fight their way into the steel complex, the end result is the same. ukrainian fighters inside are not only responsible for themselves but for the hundreds of civilians they say are sheltering there. some seen here in unverified video from ukraine s government. most heartbreaking thing in this that we have limited supplies here, and we are trying to share everything with civilians. but russia claims it will use will use them as a human shield. it s it s [ bleep ] because, you know, real military doesn t do this. reporter: and even outside the steal plant in areas firmly under russian control, tens thousands of civilians that need to be evacuated cannot. only a fraction managed to leave in the last few days. some seen here, arriving in the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, not thousands, not hundreds, but mere dozens after ukraine says russian forces violated cease-fire agreements.
he also announced an atigzle 500 medical dollars to support ukraine yaen government. those weapons shipments including howitzer canons, 144,000 artillery rounds, and a type of attack drone the pentagon tailored ukraine kaes s specific needs. the president invoked teddy roosevelt as he suggested the i say and its allies are doing more than they let on. we want all to be able to twer advertise everything in our fight for freedom but sometimes we will speak softly and carerya large javelin because we are sending a lot of those in, as well. the president, also, said russian flagged or russian-owned ships would be barred from u.s. ports. u.s. airspace, already, of course, closed to russian aircraft. well, many have been forced to flee as russia intensifies its campaign in earn ukraine. for those desperate to escape,
into poland than come out. do you think that the mass exodus is over? no, we can never say that. it s hard to predict, actually, the direction of the crisis. reporter: in the first stop in poland for many ukrainians traveling by train, the mayor was once overwhelmed by the number of refugees showing up every day. not anymore. it looks better. we re better organized as well after two months of experience. and we re happy, we are so happy that situation in ukraine looks better at this moment. reporter: inside the station, natalia belcic and her family are heading back, about 50 miles from the contested city of m mykolaiv. my child was so scared. reporter: they fled to a small town in northern germany where the government put them up in a nice hotel.
military cargo plane that was shot down only on monday, and we are told by some u.s. officials that that plane appears to have been shot down perhaps by separatists using these buks and missiles. nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. thanks for your time and information. malaysian air jet mh17 has crashed near the russian border, the site of recent fierce fighting between the ukrainian military and pro-russian separatists. the jet lost radio contact with ukraine yaen air traffic control at 33,000 feet and it remains unclear on what caused the crash. the pentagon says u.s. cannot confirm reports coming from ukrainian authorities that the plane may have been shot down. all of this comes 24 hours after 24 hours after president obama