Damaged gas pipeline in Mariupol leaves more than 750,000 without heat: Official
A Ukrainian lawmaker confirmed on Sunday that a gas pipeline was damaged in Mariupol, leaving more than 750,000 people in the second-largest city in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region without heat as temperatures plunged to 38 degrees.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk region administration, also confirmed Sunday's Mariupol civilian evacuation attempt failed after Russian troops shelled the city, breaking a temporary cease-fire agreement.
"It is extremely dangerous to take people out under such conditions," Kyrylenko wrote in a Facebook post.
Kyrylenko added that a column with a humanitarian cargo is headed to Mariupol from Zaporizhzhia.
Ukrainian lawmaker Inna Sovsun also tweeted a warning of a possible "humanitarian disaster" for nearly 1 million people in Mariupol. Sovsun expressed concern that people could freeze to death considering temperatures in the area often fall below zero this time of the year.
ABC News' Christine Theodorou