'The lives of soldiers matter too': Wives of Ukrainian soldiers trapped in Mariupol's steel plant call for soldiers to be evacuated along with civilians

The wives of two soldiers trapped in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have called for the army to be evacuated along with the civilians.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office said they would try to evacuate civilians stuck in the plant.

Zelenskyy's office said that an operation is planned to get civilians out of the plant.

The United Nations said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to an attempt to evacuate from Azovstal.

Kateryna Prokopenko, the wife of Denys Prokopenko, and Yuliia Fedusiuk, the wife of Arseniy Fedusiuk, are worried about soldiers leaving.

The lives of soldiers matter too. Yuliia Fedusiuk, the wife of Arseniy Fedusiuk, a member of the Azov Regiment in Mariupol, said that we can't only talk about civilians.

1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, and 2,000 troops are trapped in the plant's underground bunkers.

Russian forces tried to storm the plant earlier this week. Ukrainian forces said on Telegram that Russian forces bombed a field hospital.

Putin had previously called on remaining Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms and said Russia would guarantee them their lives and dignified treatment, but Prokopenko and Fedusiuk told the AP they don't think any soldiers at the plant would surrender.

Fedusiuk said that they don't know if any Azov soldiers who came back alive from Russian soldiers will be tortured and killed.

Major Serhiy Volyna, the commander of the remaining Ukrainian forces, previously told Insider that they wouldn't lay down their arms.

Volyna said that they were not even considering that possibility.

Ukrainian authorities said those trapped were running out of food, medicine and supplies.

Some children trapped in the plant are losing their teeth and hair and developing stutters because of the stress of watching their parents die, according to the Times of London.

600 soldiers were injured and some had gangrene, according to Prokopenko and Fedusiuk. The images of soldiers with open wounds and missing limbs were shown to the outlet by two women, but the AP was unable to independently verify when and where the images were taken.

Soldiers said that they had to share 50 ounces of water between four people a day. The claims could not be independently verified.

We can save our soldiers, our civilians, our kids, and we need to do this right now.