SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers are fighting a desperate last stand underneath a massive steel plant in the port city of Mariupol. It's the last bit of the city that's not yet occupied by Russian forces. Those Russian troops charge into the huge network of tunnels under the plant where soldiers and civilians have been sheltering for weeks in a vast network of bunkers. The U.N. has helped to evacuate some civilians. And now the wives and partners of the Ukrainian soldiers are demonstrating, urging the U.N. to evacuate the fighters as well as civilians.
NPR's Joanna Kakissis has this report from southern Ukraine.
