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Mariupol, often on their own, over the past week or so. one lady i spoke to said, in fact, she had been in a town on the way for a week or so. there are many ways in which this evacuation will happen, as you were hearing from matt. i think the focus certainly is on those coming out of the azovstal plant, somewhere in the region of just over 100, 46 according to russian ministry of defense. in the past 24 hours, 80 emerged and 11 of those, according to russia s ministry of defense, have chosen to stay in separatist-controlled areas. we have to take their word for that. russia say at least 69 are bound for zaporizhzhia. add to that as well this united nations and red cross negotiated evacuation of the normal civilian population, who have not been caught in the steel plant, trapped on the ground in appalling conditions. those tens of thousands are supposed to be gathering and on ....
Russian attack on kharkiv today? is it still coming with full force? yes, it is still coming. probably not as intensive as previously, but now russia changed tactics and if in the previous week, they russian troops were mostly shelling residential areas close to the borders to where russian troops were stationed and they were as close as probably one mile, two miles away from the last line of the apartment buildings. but now they shell throughout the city. and it means that nowhere in the city you can feel safe. i today was at the scene of such shelling that happened just yesterday. and that area was previously like normal or relatively safe and the people were not evacuating from there. so, they were trying to live their normal lives and the ....
Shelling overnight happened and everywhere there i can see the munition marks and the cars burned and the windows broken. so, and it happens all over the city. yeah, yeah, i mean, we ve been showing pictures as you ve been speaking there so folks could get a sense of how extensive it is. you were with a cnn team that included our clarissa ward last week, as they spent 24 hours with paramedics in the region there. we re going to play a viewers a quick clip of it and i want to get your sense of how it all played out. in that attack, you cut your hand on broken glass. tell us what it was like. did you fear for your life in that moment? yes, it was pretty scary. ....
As well at a russian military installation across the border in belgorod. they re part of a series of fires and explosions that have taken place in russian territory. let s begin with cnn s matt rivers in kyiv. officials say civilians finally getting out of that steel plant, getting out of mariupol. it s going slowly. do we expect it to continue? reporter: yeah, so i think we are expecting it to continue, jim. we re talking really about two different evacuation operations that are happening right now in mariupol. on the one hand, you have the evacuation of the general population of the city. of course, almost the entirety of mariupol is controlled by russian forces. what we have seen is a cease-fire hold now so that the overall number of residents in mariupol, tens of thousands of people, according to ukraine, that need to be evacuated. they can start evacuating from that russian-occupied territory. eventually moving to a city called zaporizhzhia, which is in ukrainian-held territory ....
The steel plant. it is, of course, more complicated there, jim and erica, because you have ukrainian forces on one side and russian forces on the other, versus the other evacuation operation coming strictly from russian-held territory. all of this taken together is some good news in a city that desperately needs it. matt, thank you for that. we want to turn to nick paton walsh in zaporizhzhia where some of those folks are finally arriving from mariupol. good morning. what more can you tell us in terms of what you re hearing from those evacuees? reporter: yeah, at this point i should stress, you know, this is a nuanced situation here. at this point we re not seeing signs here at the reception center for evacuees. those who are part of this globally publicized move are actually arriving here. forgive me, i m on my camera because of some technical difficulties, my camera phone. behind me we ve seen occasional arrivals of people who evacuated ....