until a deal is reached, the fighting rages on alexia bryan al jazeera, the speaker of the us house of representatives has thanked ukraine's president for what she described as his fight for freedom during a visit to nancy or to cave. rather, nancy pelosi told rodney zalinski his battle is for every one she is the highest ranking american official to visit since his side of the war. she led a congressional delegation on the trip, which was not announced in advance below. c, reassured present lensky of washington's continued support. legal deal. we are listening. you to say thank you. oh, you fight for free, that you're a frontier, feel that your voice is like her. and so our commitment to be there when you until fight or russia has not released casualty figures since late march, but ukraine's present says on saturday, more than 23000 russian soldiers have been killed in what he called a senseless war. it, pompey was barrage, share the occupiers, the gathering additional forces for new attacks against military in the east of the country. they brought reinforcements to the hockey region,

a factory that's become a symbol of ukrainian resistance, alexia bryan al jazeera and her abdel hamid is in a separate chair where it's hoped evacuated from mary paul. it will arrive in the next 24 hours. there are still quite a bit away there still in russian, a controlled occupied territory. router. ah, it's moving very slowly. and that's because that's at, at several stages. they have to stop. they have to be checked again. and these are russian check boys. they have to go to a filtration center where the russians have to vet every single person coming out. so it is an extremely long process. and if you recall, i mean the u. n. and the red cross conway haven't arrived in or you pull on saturday. and it's only she day that there is some movement and only about a 100 to a $120.00 civilians. of those that were in the, as of cell steel plug are coming out, we still don't know how many as still inside is relieved. maybe this they were up to a 1000. so maybe 900 are still in the is all quite fluid. i spoke earlier to the mayor of more, you will, who is here in the upper region. he said t

until a deal is reached, the fighting rages on alexia bryan al jazeera, no relatives, the ukrainian fighters hold up in the as a style still works and murray, paula rally to call for the evacuation of their loved ones. they are demonstrating in keith's maidens square, demanding that the un on the west are to evacuate. people not only from the still works, but from the rest of the besieged city. while the bunker withstands air strikes, food, water and medicine are in short supply. one resident of maria paul spoke of how she escaped, passing through the steel works facility, ukrainian soldiers fighting village by village in the country. these to hold off russian forces who have been pounding the don bass region. russian forces now control the town. it is in the trying to advance south inland to surround savanski and club with sauce. the having failed to progress down the end 03 highway. they're showing towns like layman to the east and the bottom of it cova in the west, which is from where charles stratford reports. but we are very close to the village of bottle vancouver, which is south of is

below ground at the steel works, a factory that's become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. alexia bryan al jazeera. meanwhile, other evacuees from mary apollo been arriving as a parisha after days of traveling through russia checkpoint, travelling independently in an hour govern government run terminal, where they're going to be processed in yet a recording. is that the quote it is in the sure. oh, the nerves, we survive something that god forbid happens to any one else. we need some long therapy, not us, and the children to, as it was raised, there was a risk of god said they wanted to get so from opal. so i'd, we decided that to is that it's worth it. i have other relatives still in ruble perhaps. 0, one of my uncle is in as i've studied his in courses so i dont know where he is still. so we are waiting for al jazeera honda abdul hamid has been spending time in zap morisha where its hope the convoy carrying evacuees will arrive on choose day. it's moving very slowly and that's because that's at, at several stages. they have to stop, they have to be checked again. these are russian checked boys.

a factory that's become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. alexia bryan al jazeera mo, some evacuees were expected to be taken to the city of february jer, which is where we're going to now order abraham at or corresponded to joins us live from there, and how to bring us up to speed with the latest. and when are we expecting the evacuation to arrive? well, that's a very difficult question to answer. now, if we're talking about the evacuees found the as of style steel factory, we do know at this stage, according to the region administration, he ends up parisha that the convoy has left mar, you pull, it's on root is still in russian control territory hasn't crossed that last checkpoint, that would bring them on the ukranian side so that should they take a while still along the road. they are russian checkpoints and that the each checkpoint as we understand it are they are going to be searched over and over again. now, they are many evacuations that are due to happen today. the u. n. has been negotiating with both the russian defense ministry and the ukrainian events ministry to also evacuat