Situation in Harkief a Humanitarian Crisis Has Been Declared Over Mariupol As Hundreds of Thousands of Its Inhabitants Are Without Necessities.

Hello and welcome to world news my name is sabir ali and let's take a look at the latest headlines humanitarian crisis in mario paul our war correspondent straight from kiev report on the situation in harkief a humanitarian crisis has been declared over mariupol as hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants are without necessities and power russia has been on forthcoming in the establishment of humanitarian corridors out of the city and the areas occupied by russian forces are nothing but a wasteland images such as the ones from mariopol have not been seen in europe since the second world war russian forces have put the city under siege for weeks,

And have been systematically targeting civilian sites russia is now committing a real act of genocide against the ukrainian city of mariupol for three weeks four hundred thousand citizens have been surrounded without food water light head russia's siege has also made it very difficult for outside aid to reach the civilians trapped in mario paul they can go so from the ukrainian red cross side they are still waiting the green light but unfortunately so far and this is the news of this morning they have no access in the in the area so the people within mariopol have been left with nothing as a result not even their homes we don't know anything no need no information everything is destroyed you can see it yourself there is no untouched apartment left everything is broken,

We don't know how to live on the direness of the situation was emphasized by ukraine's president now we are on the brink of survival the russians have shown clear disdain for the city's population as moscow sees the city as a purely strategic target this is because mario paul is a key port which connects crimea of the donbass region and gives control over the sea of azov nevertheless ukrainian authorities have been doing what they can to evacuate the besieged city and deputy prime minister irina verastruk has been heavily involved in the efforts those who have escaped have shared chilling accounts there were bodies next to the road destroyed tanks and destroyed houses everywhere there was shooting everywhere,

Aircraft passed overhead verstruck was also one of the most outspoken authorities to have rejected the russian ultimat concerning mario poll although russian forces are breaking the buildings of the city they have not broken the spirit of its citizens our war correspondent pavo piedkun is in kiev hello pavel tell us what is the situation like in kiev today well we had only one attack of russian missile however the city is quite safe today it was a curfew all day long and all night long curfew probably the longest since the beginning of the war right here in here during that time that i was not allowed to leave the place i'm staying in i had a short chat but very nice chat with a work correspondent from slovakia that actually told me compared to this war to other wars,

They were seeing and well they ensured that slovakia is going to support poland in any activity against russia let's take a look it's very comparable to what we saw in karabakh but for example here in kiev the situation is so far so good not that much bombing because karabakh was much smaller so right so the shelling was more intensified on one place have you been talking to civilians what do you think they are expecting from for the next let's say two weeks so they keep fingers crossed for people who are fighting and of course everyone in war wants peace but ukrainians want peace but without giving anything to russians because they have experience russia will come and we okay we give you one city,

And then you come back in few years and you will you want another city and if if we look to the situation in central europe poland is the leader so slovakia can just follow i think if the if poland will be the leader of some peacekeeping mission or some stronger reaction then maybe slovakia will join pollock it's just marathon and pavel russia is blocking grain supplies in ukrainian ports which zelensky mentioned in his speech to the italian parliament can you tell us more about that well actually he mentioned it first time something that is really important for entire europe simply because ukraine is granary for europe it is the largest food producer in europe,

Blocking this war is actually blocking the start of food producing in ukraine which is easily to see when you go outside kiev the well the all fields are completely empty if it will look like that if all the ships will stay in their ports we are well we are going to face the food crisis all continent full crisis which is very the dangerous terrible thing will be the famine that is approaching for some countries ukraine has always been one of the largest food exporters but how can we sow crops under the strikes of russian artillery how can we sow when the enemy on purpose mines fields destroys fuel reserves we don't know what harvest we will have,

Whether we will be able to expert and what is the situation like on the ukrainian russian front we know from reports that the russians have stopped around 25 kilometers away from kiev well indeed what is the most important information for today was to actually taking the correspondence well correspondence between russian soldiers and their leaders that showed the real cruelty of russians they are not going to stop they are going to attack civilians no matter if they are going to attack schools or just simple people and we started shelling that five-story building from above we destroyed the whole building the intelligence told us that in this five-story building like there are buildings the city is quite big so on the first floor are civilians on the second floor there are machine gunners and grenade launchers on the third floor there are civilians again on the fourth floor there are shooters snipers and on the roof there is anti-tank warfare and stuff like atgms javelins stuff like that they are hiding behind civilians,

So we were told to bomb the high-rise building they told us to shell this building from a distance they did not care that there were civilians putin provided time for them to go away they did not leave there will be such a slaughter pavo thank you very much for your report and have a safe night jake sullivan national security adviser to u.s president joe biden outlined preliminary plans for president's visit to poland he will attend an emergency nato smit joined by the bests of the further 29 nato associates.