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Russia's president is calling on Ukraine's last remaining defenders in Mario Pole to surrender.

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The fighting is focused on the assault style steel plant where civilians and soldiers are sheltered mostly underground, Russia claimed it would pause.

It's offensive to allow civilians to evacuate, but Ukraine says the facility was under attack from Russian troops throughout the day.

As of regiment shows heavy shelling on Ukraine's last stand in the besieged city of Mariupol, Russia says it is ready for a cease fire to allow humanitarian corridor out of the steel plant.

But Ukrainian fighters claim otherwise for the third day, the enemy has broken through the territory of the hours of Style plant where heavy bloody fighting continues.

Once again, the Russians violated the promise of the truths and did not allow the evacuation of civilians who continue to hide from shelling in the coastal plants basement.

Has confirmed that it has successfully evacuated hundreds more from Mario pole during a brief cease fire on Wednesday, We are accompanied by 11 busses filled of civilians, women, Children and elderly who wants who are seeking safe heaven, those who have made it out are relieved to finally be safe.

But they are also worried about the ones left behind.

I don't know who to ask to get them out of there to get them out of there.

There may be hope of a fresh ceasefire holding a un convoy on its way to Mario paul is hoping to use this to evacuate more people earlier.

I spoke to Saviano Abrio who was with the U.

Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs and has been part of operations helping get people to safety from Mario pole.

I asked him what he'd heard from evacuees.

Thanks for having me and about the evacuees.

I think what comes to my mind, the experience that I had with them and my colleagues had with them the last in the last days is the trauma that they are facing.

The trauma they're experiencing after this.

There's two months of war here in Ukraine in the last days.

As you mentioned before, we managed to evacuate More than almost 500 people now from a report surrounded RS and assault style plant and people that coming from that are extremely traumatized.

Yesterday, one of the convoys I I remember well one of the women that came with us, one of the busses the moment of the evacuation, we come from our reporting from areas controlled by the Russian government.

Now in the Russian busses and at a certain point you have to do the change and they come to the to the Ukrainian Southside already in the in the Ukrainian uh busses.

She was so traumatized that she couldn't trust anyone.

She couldn't talk, she couldn't walk from one bus to another one and she couldn't trust even the humanitarian, they're trying to to support her.

So you can imagine how difficulties for someone experiencing this heavy shelling every day over the heads and nothing.

No, not knowing if they're gonna survive this.

So this is the situation that people here in Ukraine are facing out.

We understand there have been many deals struck to get civilians out of Mario po what is stopping evacuations then from happening to bring more people out.

It's extremely difficult and dangerous environment for us to operate.

So we cannot forget that we cannot minimize the the the the the situation and to get to marry paul to get to absorb stop plant or to any area that experience in fighting.

It's it's necessary the agreement from both parties to the conflict.

So to break this this this agreement to get to this agreement, it's it's highly level engagements with both governments to make sure that we can operate that we can have and you can pass and have the safe passage for for civilians.

Um these specific of equations that are that happened in the in the last days, we have been organizing it or engaging with the passage of conflict for the last a couple of months and trying to make sure that we could do that.

And to the breakthrough was recently when the U.

Secretary General went to my school and then came to Ukraine and visit Kiev as well.

So this was the moment that bought a government agreed that we could start to move and we did in the last days the the two convoys of evacuation that we all know already.

Has confirmed that there is a new evacuation convoy on its way to Mario paul.

How optimistic are you that you'll be able to get everyone out who needs to be evacuated.

We saw in the last days that we can make it, if we have the the the parties to the conflict willing to make it happen, it will happen.

And we are positive and are hopeful that we can make sure that we can evacuate all civilians that are trapped in the area.

We have to also remember that we have to evacuate people that wants to be evacuated has to be a decision of each person if this person wants to live or not.

And this was as well one of the challenges that we faced in the last days in a sub style people have been living underground for two months without knowing exactly what is happening outside without seeing the sunlight for two months.

And they were afraid actually they didn't know if they would be safe for them to live, they would be safe for them to move around and they didn't even know if they could trust that they would be taken to others that they want to be taken to Viviana Gabriel with the U.

Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs.

Thank you so much for taking the time to share that with us on D.

Thank you And our correspondent Mattias Olinga is reporting for us from the city of Nikolaev.

He offered an update from southern Ukraine.

So Mcauliffe was one of the cities where the Russians approached approached very closely.

There have been in the suburbs of the city and fighting has been quite intense since the beginning of the war.

This is the city that lies in between her son which is Russian occupied and Odessa which was one of the targets of Russia, which was one of the cities that Russia wanted to and they have said so they wanted to conquer and they were stopped here.

So as they were stopped here, fighting was very intense here.

They've been pushed back a little bit from the city now.

So shelling has become less here than it used to because much of the artillery that doesn't have a very long range is now far enough from the city.

The two sides have now moved on to a war of attrition.

They are in trenches and they're facing each other shelling each other.

Um The city so far is cut off from water and it that's one of the main problem here in the city because the water is coming from the Russian occupied territories.

So water has to be brought in here by by by by by by by by by trucks or by any other means.

There's no water coming out of the tap here.

A very difficult situation in Nikolayev and so much has been focused on Mario pole in recent days and weeks.

But I think it's important to remember that the war is playing out across a frontline hundreds of kilometers long, is either side making gains overall.

There are some movements along the, along the front lines.

We've been hearing that the Ukrainians have also been able to push the Russian troops further away from Kharkiv.

Kharkiv is another city where they have been, where they have come very close without being able to enter the city and that has being heavily shelled from these positions.

This seems to have eased a little bit, but in the Donbass area, which is the main area of fighting right now, things don't really seem to shift a lot.

Both sides are heavily are engaged in heavy battles, but nobody is able to break through the other lines.

Russia is trying to break through the Ukrainian lines but the Ukrainian lines hold and Ukraine is able to has been able in the past few days to make some some smaller gains to push back the Russians here and there, but it doesn't look like anything is being decided at the moment.

Our correspondent Mattias Bullinger in Nikolai of Southern Ukraine, Thanks so much for your reporting.

Now Southeastern Ukraine is one of the most dangerous places for foreign reporters.

But a team from french public tv traveled with Russian units to see how local people are dealing with the Russian occupation.

What they found were communities who just a few weeks ago were fighting invaders were now choosing their words very carefully Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.

Those who reduced the city to rubble now bring aid.

Everything was good and functioning now everything is destroyed.

There is tension in the air but somehow life carries on in the Russian occupied areas of Ukraine.

People are even getting married Like here in Budiansky, 80 km from Mariupol.

These are the first weddings since the war began.

The flags are red, white and blue instead of blue and yellow.

It's on show for the world to see the Russian anthem plays for the wedding ceremony and the bride and groom beam with joy.