Time is running out for the hundreds of people holed up inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, which is surrounded by Russian forces.

A fighter holed up in the city now says many civilians there may have only days or even hours left to live, and that Russian troops outnumber their fighters 10 to one.

Global’s Jackson Proskow reports on the dire situation in the besieged city, the new vows for aid from Western allies and Russian President Vladimir Putin's ominous new threat.

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