At the very least 1,000 civilians, together with women and children, are sheltering beneath the Azovstal metal plant in Mariupol alongside the city’s remaining defense forces that are refusing to surrender to Russian troops.

Video produced by the Ukrainian Ministry of Overseas Affairs on Monday demonstrates women of all ages and little ones purportedly sheltering in the basement of the sprawling industrial advanced in the southeastern Ukrainian town. The Mariupol city council reported on Monday that Russian heavy bombs carry on to pummel the metal plant wherever at minimum 1,000 civilians are trapped.

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“Mainly the [civilians] are women of all ages with children and outdated people,” the city council reported on Telegram.

In the video clip shared by Ukraine’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs, about a dozen persons are obvious in the shelter. Women of all ages interviewed in the video clip say the trapped children are hungry and distressed but joyful to be alive. The ministry additional that the folks are “short of foods, water, and medicine, and have to have speedy harmless evacuation.”

The Washington Examiner could not confirm the authenticity of the movie or the city council’s statements.

The movie was initially posted by the Azov Battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces on Telegram.

The commander of the battalion in Mariupol, Lt. Col. Denys Prokopenko, said on Monday that Russian forces are “willingly” firing on the steel plant. Prokopenko mentioned that between the civilians sheltering are the family members of the remaining Ukrainian defense forces in the town.

Prokopenko urged for evacuation corridors to open up for civilians hiding in the metal plant in Mariupol.

The port metropolis of Mariupol is reported to be on the verge of slipping to Russian forces, with only a little amount of defenders still left in the city.

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Ukraine’s key minister explained around the weekend that the remaining defenders in Mariupol, who have a 53-day resistance to Russian forces, will “struggle to the end.”

“City still has not fallen. There is nevertheless our armed service forces, our soldiers. So they will combat to the end,” reported Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.