There are children aged four months to 16 years. 'We do not know whether the people there are alive or not. 'There are cellars and bunkers that we cannot reach because they are under rubble,' Palamar said. Sviatoslav Palamar, an Azov Regiment commander at the plant, told CNN on Friday that the plant has been intensely shelled by artillery, ships and airstrikes. It's unclear from the satellite images taken on Friday whether any of the military strikes have destroyed any of the basement facilities. Many of the residential and government buildings directly east of the plant have also been completely destroyed.ĬNN has previously reported that Ukrainian forces and hundreds of remaining residents have taken refuge in the deep basements at the steel plant. Some roofs are completely collapsed, and some buildings have been reduced to rubble.

There are large holes in the roofs - the telltale sign of a military strike.

Nearly every building on the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, the last Ukrainian holdout in Mariupol, has been destroyed, new satellite images from Maxar Technologies show. 'Please expand your efforts to bring back peace in our peaceful country,' he said.Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine is seen in this satellite image taken April 29. 'We all need to do more to stop Russia, to protect Ukraine.' Zelenskyy thanked Canada for the sanctions as well as military equipment and humanitarian aid.īut, 'unfortunately this just did not bring an end to the war,' he said. 'Democracies around the world are lucky to have you as our champion,' he said, vowing that Ukraine 'can count on our unwavering and steadfast support.' 'Vladimir Putin's blatant disregard for human life is unacceptable,' the Canadian leader said, while praising Zelenskyy as an inspiration. The move brings the number of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian individuals and entities sanctioned by Ottawa since the start of the war last month to nearly 500. On Wednesday, Zelenskyy is to address the American Congress, after having spoken to the British and European parliaments.Įarlier, Trudeau announced sanctions against 15 more Russian officials, including 'government and military elites who are complicit in this illegal war.' 'This is exactly the situation that our city of Mariupol is suffering right now,' Zelenskyy said, as some 20,000 fled the besieged port city on Tuesday.Ĭanada has the second-largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world with nearly 1.4 million (3.8%) of the total population being of Ukrainian descent. The Ukrainian leader described cities with no heat or electricity, without any means of communicating, and running out of food and water as they seek cover in bomb shelters. Several times in his 12-minute speech, Zelenskyy addressed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau directly, asking him how he would explain war to his own children: 'Justin, can you imagine you and your children hearing all these severe explosions' starting each morning at 4 a.m.?įILE - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits a Ukrainian church to speak with members of the Ukrainian community as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Toronto, Canada, March 4, 2022.

'Imagine that Canadian facilities have been bombed similarly as our buildings and memorial places are being bombed,' he said. 'I know that you all support Ukraine,' Zelenskyy said to MPs, 'but I would like you to understand, to feel what we feel every day.' Zelenskyy asked rhetorically how Canadians would react if Russia laid siege to Vancouver, bombed the Ottawa airport or targeted the CN Tower in Toronto, while listing off historic sites in Ukraine that have come under bombardment. 'How many more cruise missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen?' 'Can you imagine when you call your friends and you ask to please close the sky, close the air space, please stop the bombing? … And they (simply) express their deep concerns about the situation,' he lamented. FILE - A view shows a bomb crater after an air strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, at a railway station in the town of Okhtyrka, in the Sumy region, Ukraine, March 14, 2022.

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