our duty of care doesn t stop just by keeping children alive. there is such a degree of trauma on these kids. we want to be that first response when they get out of that hell hole. yeah, and we heard from president zelenskyy about 100 or so people were evacuated. you have teams on the ground in saparichya. scott mclane was saying the youngest child, six months, spent its life underground. give us a sense of the teams evacuated from the steel plant. very similar. i go back and forth with saparichya every day. ilya who is 7 or 8. living underground, seeing people come with wounds of war. it s a little boy. hearing bombardment, seeing the stress. at this point the adults can no longer pretend there is not a
breakthrough, expecting evacuation to continue today. of course, we re seeing women and children coming out. they have been hold up two months or so. what are you hearing about the evacuations and the expectation for today, of course? hi, big expectations. apocalyptic conditions in mariupol. every person i have spoken to that s come out of there shares the same ghastly experience of living underground, of being terrified, of seeing people injured, children for two months now have often just been hiding and sheltering and living in unimaginable circumstances, and coming out in dribs and drabs. today we really hoped to start seeing bus loads of civilians coming out. that will be, as you said, s saparichya, an hour from you. water, medical supplies, counselors, the situation is really important.
district. there is a cemetery there. we continue to investigate what did they do with bodies. we know exactly they do not bury them. as we are seeing, deputy mayor, this attack on this train station in kramatorsk, what is the effect of that going to be on people who are making that calculation to leave mariupol, to separate their families, and to leave other areas in the east? yeah. we know at the moment in mariupol, there is 130,000 citizens, civil citizens. they are still in mariupol. and all of them are like hostages. russia do not allow to humanitarian evacuation, to reach mariupol for any humanitarian reason and transfer humanitarian goods. so all the people are all living underground, in shelter, bomb shelter, in some spaces just to be survive. and this is their life day by
kherson, intense fighting in kharkiv, a missile landing in the centre on a government building and the satellite image of this a0 mile long convoy approaching their city. and they would have heard once again, we have counted three this morning, the air raid sirens going off. there is a real concern from people here, living underground, as well as western intelligence officials, that we will see more of this indiscriminate shelling, the use of cluster bombs on residential areas that we have seen in kharkiv, we could soon see it here. that is the real worry and why? because russia s goal is being frustrated. 0fficials russia s goal is being frustrated. officials say it is because they have been caught out by ukrainians willingness to fight and how well supplied they are, the help from western allies seems to be paying off for now but nevertheless, ukraine is the underdog in this fight, a sizeable fight. and against one of the most powerful countries in the world. for now, on a morning w