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Yet, this slight glimmer of hope we had yesterday and today with the agreement on a humanitarian corridor has not materialized into the kinds of evacuations that the ukrainians say are desperately needed. so yesterday, just four buses, four buses managed to leave the city of mariupol, carrying just a few dozen people and today, there were issues of the buses getting to where they needed to go. lined up ready to get on buses if they were to materialize. that is unfortunately been the situation there, and we don't see a way in which that's changing given the way the ukrainians say they continue ...

>> there are more than 100,000 people, i think is the latest estimate we've heard from your teams in the city. we heard from our correspondent matt rivers. the evacuation routes, humanitarian corridors, any attempt. they have not been successful. russia continues to bombard. four buses got out yesterday, just four. at this point, what is it going to take to get these civilians out? >> my president suggested yesterday to the russian side to start evacuation from the asov steel plant to evacuate civilians, more than 1,000, and those wounded soldiers, more than 500. and to exchange those soldiers...

Again, the main thing there is weapons, weapons, weapons. >> if we count what we see so far in the east as success because they have not moved in or taken any major territory, what do you attribute to the success so far of ukrainian forces there holding off? >> because we are fighting for our old land. we are not fighting for any others. what we see with the armed forces of russia, is sometimes a lack of motivation. a loack of understanding with te modern warfare. they used to have in the warfare something of the second world war, so probably this would not change. the russian federation soldi...

Nato countries to help us with the evacuation from mariupol. >> so that, unfortunately, stays in the dire status right now in mariupol. the broader battle, igor, in the east, how is the fight in the donbas region going? has russia gained any more ground? >> no, they started this offensive with the battle over donbas like we called several days ago, but now they use artillery systems and heavy shellings throughout day and night, but they haven't been an issue to proceed on the ground. we have rather strong armed forces, ukrainian armed forces in that territory. just to remind you, we are fighti...