Families of fighters trapped at Azovstal steel plant protest in Kyiv

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol during shelling, in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 7, 2022. © Alexei Alexandrov, AP

Several family members of the fighters trapped at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol staged a protest Thursday in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to demand the besieged soldiers’ evacuation.

"There’s nothing. No water, no food. We can’t abandon these guys, who have been fighting for our clear skies here," said the wife of a soldier trapped at the Azovstal steel plant.