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bloody. the military governor claiming about 200 se0 civilians remain trapped. the complex, authorities are doing everything they can to get people to safety. russian shelling and assault does not stop. civilians still need to be taken out. women, children. many children who are still there. just imagine this hell and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling, bombing and constant death nearby. he didn t say how many people left on thursday. only that evacuations are ongoing. the red cross says more than 300 people believe to be from mariupol and other nearby areas arrived on wednesday. wounded soldiers are dying in agony. reporter: this is the last bastion of ukrainian resistance. the steel plant under what a city official calls nonstop shelling and assault by russian forces. the commander saying fierce combat is ongoing. he says russian forces breached the compounds barrier. the commander begging for transport of the bodies of soldiers who di ....
right there on the screen. but not as much as the kremlin clearly expected or hoped. nick paton walsh joins us now live from southern ukraine. nick, what progress, if any, have the russians made in this second phase of their campaign? well, certainly it is unclear if they are seeing that dramatic change in pace and territorial gains that they had advertised ahead of this regrouping and pushing to the donbas. ukraine seems to be on the counteroffensive in some areas and still in this city of mariupol, predominantly under russian control, azovstal steel plant is holding out relentless bombardment, civilians caught inside and i think a sense of this being so symbolic now for ukraine s tenacity here. we spoke to a ukrainian marine who served in the same city, in a different steel plant, taken by the russians and he talked to us about what he endured in the fight there and after he was taken prisoner, injured there. this is how the war ends. but if you told him he was luck ....
shelling by russia is making the task dangerous. he warns attacks are not stoppin stopping. this is something we ve seen, russia will claim they will allow humanitarian corridors but the shelling doesn t stop. russian ground attacks do appear to have eased temporarily in the oeast and the south. the ukrainian military give us a sense, when we talk about this potential evacuation effort for the civilians there at the azovstal plant, what is that next stage? reporter: obviously a cease-fire has to be in effect if they have even half a chance of getting out of the rubble and destruction that azovstal has become. since we saw the first hundred emerge, it must have been phenomenally difficult to get anybody else out over the past couple of days. i think it is a cumulative numbers of civilians from across mariupol. there are two possibilities the u.n. are trying to engage in, getting people out of azovstal, the hundreds trapped in there who it was said were reliably blo ....
decision to carry out the strike. so how will russia respond to all of this? we ll ask pentagon press secretary john kirby when he joins us live. and in the southeastern ukrainian city of mariupol this morning [ she wlling ] that is shelling of the azovstal steel plant it is believed 200 civilians are sheltering there at the plant. women, children and wounded soldiers. at this moment the next stage of evacuations are underway. the united nations is hoping that a joint effort with the international red cross would be able to get more people out of that plant today. a medic on the inside says that people are dying in agony. bullets, hunger and a lack of medicine. now elsewhere, the pentagon is saying the russian forces made some small progress in parts of the eastern donbas region, but clearly not as much as the kremlin expected and hoped by this stage. let s bring in analyst kimberly dozer and former special forces operator mark hayward. he just returned home aft ....
evacuate civilians. they said one person was killed, six wounded. let me turn to cnn s scott mclean who is in lviv. i understand you re learning that russian state media reported some people escaped that steel factory. what do you know? reporter: yeah, that is true, victor. so this is according to russian state media, who says that 25 people have managed to make it out of the steel factory, including five children. there is new video that cnn cannot verify at this stage that shows some smaller buses, people getting off them and getting transferred onto a larger coach. now, it was unclear whether this is part of the u.n. and red cross effort to get people out, but there are no u.n. vehicles, there s no red cross vehicles shown in any of these videos. so it seems like this is a unilateral effort on the part of russia. you ll recall that russia had previously said that they would allow civilians to get out of the plant yesterday, today and also tomorrow during basicall ....