WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en-US 00:00:23.590 --> 00:00:25.625 ♪ ♪ 00:00:36.402 --> 00:00:38.237 (quiet clattering) 00:00:38.337 --> 00:00:40.540 (indistinct chatter) 00:01:29.388 --> 00:01:31.290 MSTYSLAV CHERNOV: This is the first time 00:01:31.390 --> 00:01:36.129 I saw "Z," the Russian sign of war. 00:01:38.398 --> 00:01:41.400 The hospital is surrounded. 00:01:42.234 --> 00:01:47.774 Dozens of doctors, hundreds of patients and us. 00:01:55.247 --> 00:02:01.121 CHERNOV: I have no illusions about what will happen to us if we are caught. 00:02:09.062 --> 00:02:11.264 ♪ ♪ 00:02:19.204 --> 00:02:21.574 -(rain pouring) -(windshield wipers flapping) 00:02:27.213 --> 00:02:31.049 line:0% CHERNOV: February 24, 2022. 00:02:31.150 --> 00:02:33.185 line:0% The city looks normal. 00:02:34.053 --> 00:02:38.657 line:0% Someone once told me, "Wars don't start with explosions. 00:02:38.757 --> 00:02:41.294 line:0% They start with silence." 00:02:43.662 --> 00:02:47.299 When we realized that the invasion was imminent, 00:02:47.399 --> 00:02:51.103 our team decided to go to Mariupol. 00:02:51.203 --> 00:02:55.241 line:0% We were sure it would be one of the main targets. 00:02:55.341 --> 00:02:57.743 line:0% But we could never imagine the scale 00:02:57.844 --> 00:03:01.213 line:0% and that the whole country would be under attack. 00:03:01.313 --> 00:03:03.750 (air raid siren wailing) 00:03:29.308 --> 00:03:31.511 ♪ ♪ 00:03:44.690 --> 00:03:46.592 CHERNOV: An hour after we arrive, 00:03:46.693 --> 00:03:50.897 the first bombs hit in the outskirts of the city. 00:04:02.742 --> 00:04:07.212 A military base with antiaircraft systems. 00:04:07.312 --> 00:04:10.917 Russians are clearing the path for warplanes. 00:04:31.137 --> 00:04:35.241 Huge port, industrial city, 00:04:35.341 --> 00:04:37.943 a bridge to Crimea. 00:04:38.043 --> 00:04:43.048 We were here eight years ago when Russia tried to take it. 00:04:43.148 --> 00:04:47.053 And, without a doubt, they will try again. 00:04:54.493 --> 00:04:57.430 We drive to the Left Bank, 00:04:57.530 --> 00:05:00.633 the part of the city closest to Russia. 00:05:03.468 --> 00:05:05.338 (vehicle door slams) 00:05:18.751 --> 00:05:22.221 CHERNOV: This is the first person I speak to today. 00:05:22.321 --> 00:05:23.856 (woman crying) 00:05:27.827 --> 00:05:32.632 I don't know if I should keep filming or try to calm her down. 00:05:59.224 --> 00:06:01.259 (people shouting) 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:02.728 CHERNOV: I was wrong. 00:06:02.828 --> 00:06:07.266 An hour later, shells do hit this neighborhood. 00:06:07.366 --> 00:06:09.569 (dog barking) 00:06:12.705 --> 00:06:14.774 (man shouting in Ukrainian) 00:07:01.653 --> 00:07:03.856 (chatter continues) 00:07:48.133 --> 00:07:52.205 CHERNOV: There are no directives to evacuate the city, 00:07:52.305 --> 00:07:55.074 but some people are leaving anyway. 00:08:20.832 --> 00:08:23.235 CHERNOV: I understand their anger. 00:08:23.335 --> 00:08:26.238 Their country is being attacked. 00:08:26.339 --> 00:08:29.074 It's our country, too, 00:08:29.174 --> 00:08:31.343 and we have to tell its story. 00:08:31.443 --> 00:08:33.946 (air raid siren wailing) 00:08:45.090 --> 00:08:48.561 There are almost no real bomb shelters in the city, 00:08:48.661 --> 00:08:53.065 so people hide in the basements of their apartment buildings. 00:08:54.366 --> 00:08:55.468 (baby cries) 00:08:55.568 --> 00:08:57.436 Suddenly, the lights go out. 00:08:57.536 --> 00:08:59.739 (people chattering) 00:09:03.608 --> 00:09:05.811 (baby fussing) 00:09:08.647 --> 00:09:10.182 (baby cries) 00:10:05.171 --> 00:10:07.206 ♪ ♪ 00:10:14.146 --> 00:10:17.817 CHERNOV: We send videos and photos to our editors. 00:10:19.385 --> 00:10:21.554 The war has begun. 00:10:22.555 --> 00:10:25.323 REPORTER: Ukraine is now a nation at war. 00:10:26.158 --> 00:10:29.428 190,000 Russian troops and their proxies 00:10:29.528 --> 00:10:32.931 coming from Ukraine's northern, eastern and southern borders. 00:10:33.032 --> 00:10:34.866 Russia is moving fast. 00:10:34.966 --> 00:10:36.868 REPORTER 2: After Putin stopped speaking, 00:10:36.968 --> 00:10:39.872 on cue, the missiles and air strikes began. 00:10:39.972 --> 00:10:42.674 line:0% REPORTER 3: Air raid sirens sounded on and off. 00:10:42.774 --> 00:10:46.746 line:0% Kharkiv in the east and Mariupol in the south 00:10:46.846 --> 00:10:49.214 line:0% both came under heavy fire. 00:10:49.314 --> 00:10:50.849 line:0% REPORTER 4: There's real anger in the air. 00:10:50.949 --> 00:10:54.686 line:0% The hatred for Vladimir Putin is... is palpable. 00:10:55.487 --> 00:10:58.858 (woman speaking Ukrainian over loudspeaker) 00:11:05.597 --> 00:11:08.066 CHERNOV: February 26th. 00:11:08.166 --> 00:11:11.469 This is emergency broadcast system. 00:11:11.569 --> 00:11:14.440 Russians are starting to surround the city, 00:11:14.540 --> 00:11:18.978 taking towns and blocking the roads on the outskirts. 00:11:19.078 --> 00:11:22.114 A quarter of the residents have left. 00:11:22.214 --> 00:11:24.450 But most decided to stay. 00:11:26.752 --> 00:11:30.655 This is Terrasport fitness center. 00:11:30.755 --> 00:11:35.961 Now it's one of the biggest improvised shelters in the city. 00:11:39.698 --> 00:11:41.901 (people chattering) 00:11:57.883 --> 00:12:02.621 People put tape on the mirrors so fewer fragments are created 00:12:02.721 --> 00:12:04.824 when bombs fall. 00:12:50.569 --> 00:12:52.070 CHERNOV: This woman, 00:12:52.171 --> 00:12:56.242 she's the one I told to stay home on the first day. 00:13:09.021 --> 00:13:11.723 CHERNOV: I apologize. 00:13:11.824 --> 00:13:14.093 I'm glad she is okay. 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.109 CHERNOV: As I look at all these children, 00:13:30.209 --> 00:13:32.711 I think about my daughters. 00:13:32.811 --> 00:13:36.916 They also have to leave their home because of this war. 00:13:39.084 --> 00:13:42.588 News comes from all over Ukraine, 00:13:42.688 --> 00:13:44.823 and I cannot get over the feeling 00:13:44.923 --> 00:13:49.228 that something terrible is going to happen to this city. 00:13:54.566 --> 00:13:57.002 line:0% REPORTER: Missiles fired at civilian locations, 00:13:57.102 --> 00:13:59.305 line:0% according to the Ukrainians, 00:13:59.405 --> 00:14:00.639 even though the Russians say 00:14:00.739 --> 00:14:03.175 they are not targeting civilians. 00:14:07.345 --> 00:14:09.781 line:0% REPORTER 2: Their worst nightmare coming true, 00:14:09.881 --> 00:14:13.819 line:0% thousands of citizens are trying to flee the country. 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:17.422 line:0% And those who are left behind have filled bomb shelters 00:14:17.522 --> 00:14:20.325 line:0% amid fears of rocket attacks overnight. 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:22.594 REPORTER 3: Ukrainian soldiers like these 00:14:22.694 --> 00:14:25.497 have put up a stout defense of Mariupol 00:14:25.597 --> 00:14:29.267 because, as a large port, it's economically vital, 00:14:29.367 --> 00:14:32.838 and as a major city just 30 miles from Russia, 00:14:32.938 --> 00:14:34.439 it's strategic. 00:14:34.540 --> 00:14:38.911 For both sides in this war, it is quite a prize. 00:14:50.655 --> 00:14:53.459 CHERNOV: February 27th. 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:57.462 Soldiers are patrolling around Emergency Hospital Number Two, 00:14:57.562 --> 00:15:02.167 a couple kilometers from the front line on the edge of the city. 00:15:05.303 --> 00:15:09.408 So far, Russians have not been able to break through. 00:15:15.713 --> 00:15:17.917 (men shouting) 00:15:20.018 --> 00:15:22.221 (shouting continues) 00:15:27.392 --> 00:15:29.161 CHERNOV: For the first time in Mariupol, 00:15:29.261 --> 00:15:32.197 I hear a sound of a fighter jet. 00:15:34.533 --> 00:15:36.568 (men conversing) 00:15:48.747 --> 00:15:50.716 CHERNOV: The soldiers are tense 00:15:50.816 --> 00:15:53.953 and don't want to be filmed. 00:16:14.006 --> 00:16:15.506 (siren wailing) 00:16:15.607 --> 00:16:18.577 CHERNOV: We're interrupted by an ambulance siren. 00:16:20.812 --> 00:16:22.714 (urgent chatter) 00:16:22.814 --> 00:16:24.516 (woman shouting) 00:16:33.992 --> 00:16:36.395 (woman crying) 00:16:52.644 --> 00:16:54.680 (urgent chatter) 00:17:48.133 --> 00:17:50.335 -(chatter quiets) -(sniffling) 00:18:01.613 --> 00:18:03.649 ♪ ♪ 00:18:19.598 --> 00:18:23.602 CHERNOV: Evangelina, four years old. 00:18:33.044 --> 00:18:34.545 line:0% REPORTER: U.S. officials warn 00:18:34.646 --> 00:18:38.082 line:0% that Russian forces are turning to their old and brutal tactics 00:18:38.182 --> 00:18:40.285 line:0% of laying siege to cities 00:18:40.385 --> 00:18:43.355 line:0% while targeting civilians and infrastructure from afar. 00:18:43.455 --> 00:18:45.357 line:0% REPORTER 2: ...these punishing artillery 00:18:45.457 --> 00:18:46.858 line:0% and air strikes. 00:18:46.958 --> 00:18:50.261 line:0% Heavy losses, as indiscriminate shelling rain down 00:18:50.361 --> 00:18:51.629 line:0% on apartment buildings, 00:18:51.729 --> 00:18:54.666 line:0% the university in flames. 00:18:55.501 --> 00:18:58.103 line:0% REPORTER 3: "Show this to Putin," a doctor said 00:18:58.203 --> 00:18:59.904 line:0% to an AP reporter. 00:19:00.005 --> 00:19:02.474 The doctor wanted Vladimir Putin to see, quote, 00:19:02.574 --> 00:19:06.011 "the eyes of this child and crying doctors." 00:19:06.111 --> 00:19:08.546 REPORTER 4: Anyone wanting to leave Mariupol 00:19:08.646 --> 00:19:11.116 probably has to hit the road by tomorrow, 00:19:11.216 --> 00:19:16.355 after which the last route out is expected to close. 00:19:24.429 --> 00:19:26.632 (quiet chatter) 00:19:29.500 --> 00:19:31.036 CHERNOV: March 2nd. 00:19:31.136 --> 00:19:33.972 Russian strikes are causing problems with Internet 00:19:34.072 --> 00:19:35.941 and electricity. 00:19:41.012 --> 00:19:42.948 CHERNOV: All the international journalists 00:19:43.048 --> 00:19:45.750 we met in Mariupol have left. 00:19:46.784 --> 00:19:51.256 But we decide to stick with the medics for a few days. 00:19:55.093 --> 00:19:57.529 We drive to the Left Bank, 00:19:57.629 --> 00:20:00.899 where the heaviest fighting is happening. 00:20:00.999 --> 00:20:02.534 (sighs) 00:20:20.085 --> 00:20:21.486 CHERNOV: This woman was standing 00:20:21.586 --> 00:20:24.323 on her balcony when the shell hit the house 00:20:24.423 --> 00:20:27.693 on the opposite side of the street. 00:20:39.404 --> 00:20:41.607 (siren wailing) 00:20:46.011 --> 00:20:49.714 But shells don't just hit the Left Bank. 00:20:49.815 --> 00:20:53.986 These days, attacks happen all across the city. 00:21:23.315 --> 00:21:25.517 ♪ ♪ 00:21:29.921 --> 00:21:32.324 (urgent chatter) 00:22:05.790 --> 00:22:08.327 (woman gasping, shouting) 00:22:43.428 --> 00:22:45.630 (urgent chatter continues) 00:22:51.436 --> 00:22:53.572 (man shouting instructions) 00:22:56.307 --> 00:22:58.677 -(man crying) -(urgent chatter continues) 00:23:19.530 --> 00:23:21.433 CHERNOV: The boy was playing soccer 00:23:21.533 --> 00:23:24.769 with his friends when shelling started. 00:23:25.736 --> 00:23:29.474 His legs were completely blown off. 00:23:30.275 --> 00:23:32.477 (quiet chatter) 00:23:43.321 --> 00:23:45.524 (sobbing) 00:23:51.229 --> 00:23:53.432 (wailing) 00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:03.975 (sobbing and wailing continues) 00:24:20.292 --> 00:24:24.563 CHERNOV: Ilya, 16 years old. 00:24:30.301 --> 00:24:32.504 (distant explosions echoing) 00:24:45.016 --> 00:24:47.886 The front line is closing in. 00:24:49.153 --> 00:24:52.623 We've sent all the photos and videos. 00:24:52.723 --> 00:24:56.795 Note to editors: graphic content. 00:24:58.163 --> 00:25:00.231 This is painful. 00:25:00.331 --> 00:25:03.468 This is painful to watch. 00:25:03.568 --> 00:25:06.037 But it must be painful to watch. 00:25:09.941 --> 00:25:11.676 REPORTER: In the port city of Mariupol, 00:25:11.776 --> 00:25:16.748 local officials say hundreds of casualties are now feared. 00:25:16.848 --> 00:25:19.317 line:0% REPORTER 2: A father lost in grief 00:25:19.417 --> 00:25:23.889 line:0% over the body of his 16-year-old son Ilya. 00:25:23.989 --> 00:25:25.890 REPORTER 3: The electricity's gone. 00:25:25.990 --> 00:25:28.326 The Internet's gone. 00:25:28.426 --> 00:25:30.361 The Russians are coming. 00:25:30.461 --> 00:25:33.565 Mariupol awaits its fate. 00:25:37.301 --> 00:25:40.138 -(missile whooshing) -(distant explosions) 00:25:41.472 --> 00:25:43.174 CHERNOV: March 3rd. 00:25:46.811 --> 00:25:48.547 CHERNOV: The shelling has reached 00:25:48.647 --> 00:25:51.316 the neighborhood around the hospital. 00:25:52.116 --> 00:25:54.319 (explosions echoing) 00:26:20.111 --> 00:26:22.314 (women crying and chattering quietly) 00:26:29.287 --> 00:26:33.491 CHERNOV: Patients are moved away from the windows, 00:26:33.591 --> 00:26:34.926 and day after day, 00:26:35.026 --> 00:26:38.529 the conditions in the hospital get worse. 00:26:38.629 --> 00:26:41.232 (people conversing) 00:26:48.172 --> 00:26:52.677 This is one of the boys who was hit while playing soccer. 00:26:58.083 --> 00:27:00.418 Doctors smile at him, 00:27:00.518 --> 00:27:05.056 but I hear a whisper that his leg may need to be amputated. 00:27:05.156 --> 00:27:10.428 There are almost no antibiotics left to stop the sepsis. 00:27:48.699 --> 00:27:50.869 (women conversing) 00:27:52.036 --> 00:27:53.937 CHERNOV: The Internet and phones 00:27:54.038 --> 00:27:55.739 have stopped working, 00:27:55.840 --> 00:27:58.843 and I'm sending short dispatches to our editors 00:27:58.943 --> 00:28:01.746 over the satellite phone. 00:28:03.615 --> 00:28:09.788 The morgue is full, so doctors store bodies in utility rooms. 00:28:16.761 --> 00:28:18.963 (quiet chatter, light laughter) 00:28:22.366 --> 00:28:25.437 CHERNOV: We stay and sleep in the hospital. 00:28:25.537 --> 00:28:29.441 So far, it seems to be the safest place. 00:28:54.098 --> 00:28:56.301 (distant explosions echoing) 00:29:05.042 --> 00:29:06.977 CHERNOV: From our observation point 00:29:07.077 --> 00:29:09.680 on the seventh floor of the hospital, 00:29:09.780 --> 00:29:12.983 I see the battle on the front line continues. 00:29:14.285 --> 00:29:18.156 Russians are still trying to break into the city. 00:29:24.461 --> 00:29:26.030 (people shouting) 00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:38.209 CHERNOV: Kyryl, 18 months old. 00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:45.517 (urgent chatter) 00:29:48.852 --> 00:29:51.055 (machinery beeping) 00:30:10.007 --> 00:30:12.043 (woman weeping) 00:30:20.852 --> 00:30:23.054 (woman wailing) 00:30:41.706 --> 00:30:43.908 ♪ ♪ 00:31:07.899 --> 00:31:10.068 ♪ ♪ 00:31:18.942 --> 00:31:20.377 CHERNOV: All night, we sit 00:31:20.477 --> 00:31:23.214 on the seventh floor of the hospital, 00:31:23.314 --> 00:31:26.617 hoping to catch a connection, 00:31:26.717 --> 00:31:30.521 to find a way to get these images out. 00:31:31.755 --> 00:31:33.892 Nothing works. 00:31:36.761 --> 00:31:40.097 I think about all this country has been through 00:31:40.197 --> 00:31:42.199 over the past eight years, 00:31:42.300 --> 00:31:45.002 all that I've filmed. 00:31:45.103 --> 00:31:46.671 Revolution of Dignity. 00:31:48.038 --> 00:31:49.474 Crimea's annexation. 00:31:51.209 --> 00:31:54.045 Russia's invasion of Donbas. 00:31:55.546 --> 00:31:56.981 MH17. 00:31:59.150 --> 00:32:00.685 Donetsk airport siege. 00:32:03.287 --> 00:32:05.490 War that seems endless. 00:32:06.423 --> 00:32:08.893 Thousands have died. 00:32:08.993 --> 00:32:10.995 We keep filming. 00:32:11.095 --> 00:32:12.730 And things stay the same. 00:32:15.199 --> 00:32:17.235 Worse even. 00:32:17.335 --> 00:32:21.005 Propaganda turns everything upside down. 00:32:23.941 --> 00:32:25.610 I think about my daughters. 00:32:26.811 --> 00:32:30.348 They were born into a world at war. 00:32:30.448 --> 00:32:33.017 I wish I could see them now. 00:32:35.219 --> 00:32:37.455 (distant explosions echoing) 00:32:37.555 --> 00:32:40.658 But all I have is a satellite phone 00:32:40.758 --> 00:32:43.360 to make short calls to editors. 00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:47.765 We tell them, "Mariupol is under siege. 00:32:47.865 --> 00:32:51.001 "Russians are killing civilians. 00:32:51.101 --> 00:32:53.137 "We are holding up. 00:32:53.237 --> 00:32:55.974 Tell our families we love them." 00:33:00.878 --> 00:33:03.081 ♪ ♪ 00:33:04.949 --> 00:33:07.451 line:0% REPORTER: Evacuations of two besieged cities in Ukraine 00:33:07.551 --> 00:33:09.753 line:0% are being delayed amid reports that 00:33:09.853 --> 00:33:12.590 line:0% Russia is violating a temporary cease-fire. 00:33:12.690 --> 00:33:15.726 The city is surrounded by Russian troops, 00:33:15.826 --> 00:33:17.228 and there is no way out, 00:33:17.328 --> 00:33:19.897 even for any humanitarian help. 00:33:19.997 --> 00:33:22.400 line:0% The situation is really dire in Mariupol. 00:33:22.500 --> 00:33:24.535 A courier that was planned to evacuate people from there, 00:33:24.635 --> 00:33:26.536 and we've heard that it has not happened, 00:33:26.637 --> 00:33:29.106 that Russian forces have continued to shell the city. 00:33:29.206 --> 00:33:30.941 That's what the mayor has said. 00:33:31.041 --> 00:33:35.713 line:0% Um, we have no real-time information of what's going on in the city. 00:33:38.449 --> 00:33:41.452 (man speaking on radio) 00:33:55.366 --> 00:33:57.434 CHERNOV: This is the only radio signal 00:33:57.534 --> 00:34:00.704 you can catch in Mariupol now. 00:34:00.805 --> 00:34:04.475 Over the next weeks, Russia will bomb buildings, 00:34:04.575 --> 00:34:09.947 cut electricity, water, supplies, 00:34:10.047 --> 00:34:14.384 and finally, crucially, the cell phone, 00:34:14.484 --> 00:34:17.288 radio, television towers. 00:34:20.257 --> 00:34:22.994 We have to get out of the hospital 00:34:23.094 --> 00:34:26.163 to try to find a connection, 00:34:26.263 --> 00:34:28.866 to see what's happening to the city. 00:34:30.767 --> 00:34:33.537 (explosions ringing) 00:34:33.637 --> 00:34:35.673 (alarms blaring) 00:34:38.542 --> 00:34:40.778 (explosions continue) 00:34:49.186 --> 00:34:50.988 CHERNOV: March 4th. 00:34:51.088 --> 00:34:53.724 A mall near the hospital was destroyed. 00:35:41.438 --> 00:35:43.574 CHERNOV: As we search for a connection, 00:35:43.674 --> 00:35:46.310 we go neighborhood to neighborhood. 00:35:46.410 --> 00:35:51.382 Houses we saw standing days ago are destroyed. 00:36:03.093 --> 00:36:05.163 (sobbing) 00:36:44.668 --> 00:36:46.370 CHERNOV: We follow the smoke. 00:36:46.470 --> 00:36:49.840 Houses hit by shells burn. 00:36:51.141 --> 00:36:55.312 A humanitarian corridor was opened on March 5th. 00:36:55.412 --> 00:36:57.347 Vehicles fled the city, 00:36:57.447 --> 00:37:00.585 only to be blocked by Russian forces. 00:37:02.486 --> 00:37:05.423 Then the road was closed. 00:38:02.580 --> 00:38:04.147 CHERNOV: Red Cross, police, 00:38:04.247 --> 00:38:09.086 Ukrainian soldiers try to help and calm people down. 00:38:41.351 --> 00:38:43.521 (people conversing worriedly) 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:58.035 ♪ ♪ 00:39:10.647 --> 00:39:12.248 CHERNOV: The more people realize 00:39:12.349 --> 00:39:14.518 that they are trapped, 00:39:14.618 --> 00:39:17.088 the more desperate they grow. 00:39:25.595 --> 00:39:27.798 (people chattering) 00:39:52.189 --> 00:39:54.392 (sobbing) 00:41:50.874 --> 00:41:54.645 CHERNOV: The city changed so much, so quickly. 00:41:54.745 --> 00:41:56.947 When we were in the hospital, 00:41:57.047 --> 00:41:59.816 one of the doctors told me, 00:41:59.917 --> 00:42:01.918 "War is like an X-ray. 00:42:02.018 --> 00:42:05.623 All human insides become visible." 00:42:07.991 --> 00:42:10.627 CHERNOV: "Good people become better. 00:42:10.727 --> 00:42:13.597 Bad people worse." 00:42:22.572 --> 00:42:23.740 (man laughs) 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:25.743 CHERNOV: But I thought, 00:42:25.843 --> 00:42:31.114 "It's not only the bombs, lack of food, water. 00:42:31.214 --> 00:42:35.585 "It's isolation, the inability to contact relatives, 00:42:35.685 --> 00:42:40.124 to find out what's happening in other cities." 00:42:40.224 --> 00:42:44.661 People charge cell phones from a generator 00:42:44.761 --> 00:42:48.932 just to use them as flashlights. 00:42:49.032 --> 00:42:50.367 Cut off. 00:42:50.467 --> 00:42:52.803 We feel the same. 00:42:52.903 --> 00:42:55.505 We still cannot send our images. 00:42:55.606 --> 00:42:57.808 (playful chatter, humming) 00:43:00.711 --> 00:43:02.913 (woman singing) 00:43:24.467 --> 00:43:26.670 (chatter continues) 00:43:40.017 --> 00:43:41.819 (crying) 00:43:45.355 --> 00:43:47.391 (sniffling) 00:44:32.969 --> 00:44:35.673 (baby crying) 00:44:38.007 --> 00:44:40.711 (explosions echoing) 00:44:42.579 --> 00:44:46.884 CHERNOV: That night, as we watch artillery shooting, 00:44:46.984 --> 00:44:51.020 our phones suddenly pick up connection. 00:44:51.120 --> 00:44:54.858 I split the footage into ten-second clips, 00:44:54.958 --> 00:44:59.763 set three phones on the windowsill and send. 00:45:01.531 --> 00:45:03.600 line:0% REPORTER: Bombs continued to rain down 00:45:03.700 --> 00:45:06.569 line:0% on the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, 00:45:06.669 --> 00:45:09.106 line:0% which was fully surrounded by Russian troops. 00:45:12.709 --> 00:45:15.813 REPORTER 2: The Russians say they aren't targeting civilians. 00:45:15.913 --> 00:45:19.349 This is 18-month-old Kyryl. 00:45:19.449 --> 00:45:22.286 line:0% REPORTER 3: Medics try to save the boy. 00:45:22.386 --> 00:45:24.288 line:0% They cannot. 00:45:33.129 --> 00:45:35.432 CHERNOV: March 9th. 00:45:37.968 --> 00:45:42.239 Like a disease, war is taking over the city. 00:45:46.376 --> 00:45:47.744 (quiet chatter) 00:45:47.845 --> 00:45:51.648 We are back at the Emergency Hospital Number Two. 00:45:51.748 --> 00:45:54.852 The few city workers that are still on duty 00:45:54.952 --> 00:45:57.788 collect bodies to be buried. 00:45:59.456 --> 00:46:01.992 I recognize this sheet. 00:46:05.596 --> 00:46:10.200 It's Ilya, the boy who was killed playing soccer. 00:46:20.577 --> 00:46:22.780 ♪ ♪ 00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:52.342 CHERNOV: Somewhere among these black bags 00:46:52.442 --> 00:46:54.811 lie the other children we filmed. 00:46:54.911 --> 00:46:57.114 (chatter continues) 00:47:14.831 --> 00:47:17.034 ♪ ♪ 00:47:27.043 --> 00:47:29.046 (panting) 00:47:54.070 --> 00:47:56.340 CHERNOV: Another truck arrives. 00:47:57.373 --> 00:47:59.576 line:0% Bodies from the streets. 00:48:00.977 --> 00:48:03.180 line:0% (distant explosions echoing) 00:48:06.416 --> 00:48:11.288 My brain will desperately want to forget all this. 00:48:11.388 --> 00:48:14.157 But the camera will not let it happen. 00:48:20.897 --> 00:48:23.500 (explosion ringing) 00:48:23.600 --> 00:48:25.902 (glass shattering) 00:48:26.002 --> 00:48:28.205 (alarms blaring) 00:48:32.909 --> 00:48:34.777 CHERNOV: The shock wave. 00:48:35.912 --> 00:48:39.516 Ears and skin feel the change of pressure. 00:48:44.687 --> 00:48:48.759 We hide in the entryway of a building 00:48:48.859 --> 00:48:51.895 and wait for another strike, 00:48:51.995 --> 00:48:54.564 praying it will not hit us. 00:49:00.069 --> 00:49:02.539 (explosions echoing) 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:04.675 (alarms blaring) 00:49:24.227 --> 00:49:25.696 (knocking) 00:49:34.838 --> 00:49:37.707 CHERNOV: We go to the top of the building 00:49:37.807 --> 00:49:41.478 and see the smoke just a few blocks away. 00:49:41.578 --> 00:49:43.647 It's a hospital. 00:50:02.632 --> 00:50:04.701 (people shouting) 00:50:14.010 --> 00:50:15.645 (sobbing) 00:50:49.412 --> 00:50:51.615 (urgent chatter continues) 00:51:31.221 --> 00:51:33.423 ♪ ♪ 00:51:54.311 --> 00:51:57.481 (men shouting in distance) 00:52:05.789 --> 00:52:07.491 (radio chatter) 00:52:12.728 --> 00:52:14.463 CHERNOV: I try to find out 00:52:14.563 --> 00:52:17.634 how many dead and wounded there are. 00:52:18.702 --> 00:52:22.171 But in this chaos, nobody can answer. 00:52:22.271 --> 00:52:24.474 (urgent chatter) 00:52:30.846 --> 00:52:32.883 (people conversing) 00:53:32.475 --> 00:53:33.610 CHERNOV: The name of the police officer 00:53:33.710 --> 00:53:35.545 speaking to us is Vladimir. 00:53:35.645 --> 00:53:38.481 He wants to make a statement. 00:53:57.734 --> 00:54:01.904 CHERNOV: And then he asks once more. 00:54:02.004 --> 00:54:05.041 Russian troops commit... 00:54:06.776 --> 00:54:08.578 ...war crimes. 00:54:08.678 --> 00:54:11.547 Our family, our womens, 00:54:11.647 --> 00:54:15.050 our children need helps. 00:54:15.150 --> 00:54:19.322 Our people needs help from international society. 00:54:19.422 --> 00:54:21.791 Please help Mariupol. 00:54:29.099 --> 00:54:30.466 CHERNOV: Vladimir showed us 00:54:30.566 --> 00:54:32.135 the only place in the city 00:54:32.235 --> 00:54:36.406 where we could catch a signal and send the images. 00:54:39.976 --> 00:54:42.678 CHERNOV: Outside a looted grocery store 00:54:42.778 --> 00:54:45.348 on Budivel'nykiv Avenue. 00:54:52.655 --> 00:54:54.891 (distant explosions echoing) 00:54:57.961 --> 00:55:00.330 (glass and stone clattering underfoot) 00:55:09.905 --> 00:55:13.576 CHERNOV: Air strikes are happening constantly. 00:55:25.621 --> 00:55:27.657 CHERNOV: Vladimir said the footage 00:55:27.757 --> 00:55:29.726 from the maternity hospital 00:55:29.826 --> 00:55:32.062 will change the course of the war. 00:55:33.229 --> 00:55:36.632 But we have seen so many dead people. 00:55:36.732 --> 00:55:38.501 Dead children. 00:55:38.601 --> 00:55:41.971 How could more death change anything? 00:55:42.071 --> 00:55:44.107 ♪ ♪ 00:55:46.809 --> 00:55:49.612 line:0% REPORTER: Air strikes on the southern city of Mariupol 00:55:49.712 --> 00:55:52.649 line:0% destroyed a children's and maternity hospital. 00:55:52.749 --> 00:55:54.451 REPORTER 2: For once, the aftermath of a bombing, 00:55:54.551 --> 00:55:56.652 here at the city's maternity hospital, 00:55:56.752 --> 00:55:58.922 was filmed for the world to see. 00:55:59.022 --> 00:56:00.890 REPORTER 3: Horror and devastation. 00:56:00.990 --> 00:56:03.493 line:0% This is clearly the worst and most egregious attack 00:56:03.593 --> 00:56:05.595 line:0% we have seen in this war so far. 00:56:05.695 --> 00:56:07.897 line:0% (speaking Spanish) 00:56:11.901 --> 00:56:14.070 line:0% (reporter speaking Japanese) 00:56:15.337 --> 00:56:17.006 REPORTER 4: The Associated Press also reports 00:56:17.106 --> 00:56:19.475 that city workers have had to create 00:56:19.575 --> 00:56:22.112 a mass grave to bury the dead. 00:56:22.212 --> 00:56:24.213 REPORTER 5: And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 00:56:24.313 --> 00:56:26.583 calling this attack a war crime. 00:56:36.525 --> 00:56:38.728 (distant gunfire ringing) 00:56:40.529 --> 00:56:42.732 CHERNOV: March 10th. 00:56:45.268 --> 00:56:47.670 (explosion echoing loudly) 00:56:47.771 --> 00:56:50.506 -(alarms blaring) -(explosion echoing) 00:56:50.606 --> 00:56:52.742 The city is still being bombed. 00:56:54.644 --> 00:56:57.379 And now I can also hear heavy machine guns. 00:56:57.479 --> 00:56:58.881 (gunfire echoing) 00:56:58.981 --> 00:57:02.685 That means Russians have entered the city. 00:57:06.689 --> 00:57:09.459 (loud explosions echoing) 00:57:16.565 --> 00:57:18.768 (car alarm wailing) 00:57:21.136 --> 00:57:24.774 Vladimir, the officer we met yesterday, is with us. 00:57:36.519 --> 00:57:38.754 CHERNOV: The last functioning fire department 00:57:38.854 --> 00:57:43.526 in the city destroyed by another air strike. 00:57:43.626 --> 00:57:45.829 (quiet chatter) 00:57:52.601 --> 00:57:54.537 (machinery whirring) 00:58:05.147 --> 00:58:07.517 (explosion echoing) 00:58:16.326 --> 00:58:20.096 CHERNOV: I don't know if he survived. 00:58:20.196 --> 00:58:24.067 We try not to stay long in one place. 00:58:32.442 --> 00:58:37.947 The biggest university in the city was destroyed, too. 00:59:10.045 --> 00:59:12.749 CHERNOV: New wounds every day. 00:59:15.484 --> 00:59:17.353 (debris crunching underfoot) 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.268 (metallic objects clattering) 01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.147 CHERNOV: We drive back to catch a signal 01:00:52.247 --> 01:00:55.618 at the spot on Budivel'nykiv Avenue. 01:00:55.718 --> 01:00:59.756 It's still the only place where you can get Internet. 01:01:00.590 --> 01:01:02.057 (cell phone chimes) 01:01:02.157 --> 01:01:05.662 It's past curfew, so Vladimir accompanies us. 01:01:18.841 --> 01:01:23.279 CHERNOV: We check the news and speak to editors. 01:01:23.379 --> 01:01:24.646 CHERNOV: Sorry, what? 01:01:24.746 --> 01:01:26.415 Hold on. Hold on. 01:01:26.515 --> 01:01:27.916 (explosion echoing) 01:01:28.017 --> 01:01:30.353 It's coming back. Hold on. 01:01:31.621 --> 01:01:33.723 Hold on, hold on, hold on. 01:01:36.224 --> 01:01:39.095 This motherfucker is flying around. 01:01:40.329 --> 01:01:42.765 Hold on. I can hear him. 01:01:44.901 --> 01:01:48.171 I-I don't think there has been a moment today 01:01:48.271 --> 01:01:52.542 when there was not-not an airplane in the air. 01:01:52.642 --> 01:01:54.944 And, uh... 01:02:01.517 --> 01:02:03.552 CHERNOV: I give them the latest. 01:02:03.652 --> 01:02:06.522 But there are disturbing updates for us. 01:02:06.622 --> 01:02:08.390 Okay. 01:02:08.490 --> 01:02:10.292 REPORTER: These women's stories have epitomized 01:02:10.392 --> 01:02:12.728 the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. 01:02:12.828 --> 01:02:15.597 line:0% And yet, even their suffering has been questioned, 01:02:15.697 --> 01:02:17.599 line:0% with Russian officials claiming on Twitter 01:02:17.699 --> 01:02:21.237 line:0% and in news programs that they must be actors. 01:02:28.844 --> 01:02:30.512 (translated): This maternity hospital had already been 01:02:30.613 --> 01:02:33.949 seized by the Azov Battalion and other radicals. 01:02:34.049 --> 01:02:35.951 All the pregnant women, all the nurses, 01:02:36.051 --> 01:02:39.489 all the service personnel were already expelled from there. 01:02:58.774 --> 01:03:01.878 (translated): This is information terrorism. 01:03:12.121 --> 01:03:14.022 CHERNOV: We hoped that the pregnant woman 01:03:14.122 --> 01:03:16.359 on the stretcher survived. 01:03:17.727 --> 01:03:19.261 So we went to search for her 01:03:19.361 --> 01:03:23.266 and other victims at the Emergency Hospital Number Two. 01:03:24.967 --> 01:03:27.436 Soldiers are guarding the entrance. 01:03:32.541 --> 01:03:36.145 Vladimir says this is the red zone now. 01:03:36.245 --> 01:03:39.348 The Russians have entered the neighborhood. 01:03:39.448 --> 01:03:42.050 (gunfire echoing) 01:03:42.150 --> 01:03:44.019 So he comes with us. 01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:46.589 (gunfire echoing) 01:03:49.258 --> 01:03:53.396 Floor by floor, we search for the pregnant women. 01:03:53.496 --> 01:03:59.035 There is no maternity ward, so we try the surgery department. 01:04:00.735 --> 01:04:02.637 (people conversing) 01:04:02.737 --> 01:04:04.941 (woman shouting in pain) 01:04:13.782 --> 01:04:18.221 Surgeons are overwhelmed and low on painkillers. 01:04:19.187 --> 01:04:21.390 (woman shouting in pain) 01:04:24.927 --> 01:04:28.464 This piece of shrapnel was taken from a patient. 01:04:36.205 --> 01:04:38.374 CHERNOV: Finally, we find one of the doctors 01:04:38.474 --> 01:04:40.643 who treated the woman on the stretcher. 01:05:14.176 --> 01:05:16.278 CHERNOV: Her name was Iryna. 01:05:16.378 --> 01:05:19.581 They said she screamed, "Kill me," 01:05:19.682 --> 01:05:21.384 when they brought her. 01:05:21.484 --> 01:05:24.487 She knew her child was dead. 01:05:27.856 --> 01:05:30.192 Other survivors are here. 01:05:32.294 --> 01:05:35.264 One of them has just given birth. 01:05:37.699 --> 01:05:41.370 Another is taken to an operating room. 01:05:41.470 --> 01:05:44.707 She lost part of her foot in the bombing 01:05:44.807 --> 01:05:47.410 and doctors worry about the child. 01:05:57.987 --> 01:06:00.189 -(urgent chatter) -(machines beeping) 01:06:33.889 --> 01:06:36.726 -(baby crying) -(excited shouting, clapping) 01:06:41.029 --> 01:06:43.232 (baby continues crying) 01:07:37.119 --> 01:07:39.321 (distant explosions echoing) 01:07:50.533 --> 01:07:52.835 (distant explosion echoes) 01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:06.915 CHERNOV: We have to leave. 01:08:07.015 --> 01:08:09.317 But the corridors are filled with people 01:08:09.417 --> 01:08:13.088 who lost homes, relatives. 01:08:13.188 --> 01:08:15.191 (woman sniffling) 01:08:43.852 --> 01:08:47.223 line:0% (woman sobbing, breathing unsteadily) 01:09:02.905 --> 01:09:04.940 (crying) 01:09:22.858 --> 01:09:24.894 ♪ ♪ 01:09:37.273 --> 01:09:41.243 CHERNOV: We head to the exit, but it's too late. 01:09:41.343 --> 01:09:44.980 Soldiers say a sniper just shot and injured a nurse 01:09:45.080 --> 01:09:47.850 in front of the hospital. 01:10:11.673 --> 01:10:14.510 CHERNOV: Two soldiers are still trapped. 01:10:50.445 --> 01:10:52.715 (gunfire echoes) 01:11:02.657 --> 01:11:05.561 (gunfire continues) 01:11:40.428 --> 01:11:41.964 (man coughs) 01:11:47.202 --> 01:11:49.838 (man speaking over radio) 01:11:49.938 --> 01:11:52.641 CHERNOV: We hear a low rumble. 01:12:27.008 --> 01:12:29.677 CHERNOV: So we run to the seventh floor, 01:12:29.777 --> 01:12:32.414 to our observation point. 01:12:32.514 --> 01:12:34.082 It's risky. 01:12:34.182 --> 01:12:37.786 They can open fire at upper floors of the hospital. 01:12:38.887 --> 01:12:41.924 But from here, we can see more. 01:13:12.120 --> 01:13:14.490 (explosion echoing) 01:13:22.597 --> 01:13:24.733 (explosion echoing) 01:13:59.067 --> 01:14:01.103 (gunfire echoes) 01:14:12.547 --> 01:14:15.550 CHERNOV: They are coming closer. 01:14:15.650 --> 01:14:18.220 If reinforcements don't arrive, 01:14:18.320 --> 01:14:22.891 the soldiers downstairs will not be able to stop them. 01:14:23.992 --> 01:14:26.462 They will take over the hospital. 01:14:57.826 --> 01:15:00.628 CHERNOV: What should we do? 01:15:00.728 --> 01:15:03.598 We need to send all this footage. 01:15:03.698 --> 01:15:07.268 Survivors from the maternity bombing. 01:15:07.368 --> 01:15:10.739 Tanks shooting at residential areas. 01:15:12.407 --> 01:15:14.576 There is no connection here. 01:15:14.676 --> 01:15:18.279 And we can't get to our car. 01:15:18.379 --> 01:15:22.050 And if we get caught, Vladimir says, 01:15:22.150 --> 01:15:25.687 "Russians will make you say everything you published 01:15:25.787 --> 01:15:27.656 was a lie." 01:15:38.666 --> 01:15:40.903 The night is sleepless. 01:15:43.304 --> 01:15:46.807 Feverish thoughts of past, present and future 01:15:46.908 --> 01:15:48.577 race through my mind. 01:15:51.846 --> 01:15:57.853 I want all of this to stop, but I have no power over it. 01:15:58.687 --> 01:16:04.993 My memory keeps carrying me back home and back to war. 01:16:06.728 --> 01:16:10.865 If someday my daughters ask me, 01:16:10.965 --> 01:16:15.103 "What did you do to stop this madness, 01:16:15.203 --> 01:16:18.974 this sadistic virus of destruction?" 01:16:20.008 --> 01:16:23.779 ...I want to be able to give them an answer. 01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:34.122 (brisk footsteps) 01:16:42.898 --> 01:16:46.101 This is a special military task force. 01:16:48.537 --> 01:16:52.140 All night, we hid inside the hospital, 01:16:52.240 --> 01:16:55.744 and Vladimir used the last of his radio's battery 01:16:55.844 --> 01:16:57.713 to contact them. 01:17:00.648 --> 01:17:06.421 This morning, they broke into the surgery department to rescue us. 01:17:06.521 --> 01:17:10.926 They said we were already behind enemy lines. 01:17:12.326 --> 01:17:14.262 (breathing heavily) 01:17:18.833 --> 01:17:20.969 (men shouting) 01:17:32.546 --> 01:17:34.449 (explosion echoing) 01:17:47.928 --> 01:17:50.432 (explosion echoing) 01:17:50.532 --> 01:17:52.634 CHERNOV: We are still wearing the scrubs 01:17:52.734 --> 01:17:54.335 the doctors gave us, 01:17:54.435 --> 01:17:58.373 in case Russians entered the hospital that night. 01:18:00.909 --> 01:18:02.843 (door squeaking open) 01:18:02.943 --> 01:18:05.147 (breathing heavily) 01:18:06.514 --> 01:18:08.250 (explosion echoing) 01:18:14.121 --> 01:18:16.425 (explosion echoing) 01:18:24.065 --> 01:18:26.334 (explosion echoing) 01:18:39.714 --> 01:18:41.917 (explosion echoing) 01:18:49.924 --> 01:18:52.127 (explosion echoing) 01:19:05.139 --> 01:19:07.342 (debris crunching underfoot) 01:19:14.482 --> 01:19:16.418 CHERNOV: We run, 01:19:16.518 --> 01:19:20.254 abandoning the doctors who have sheltered us, 01:19:20.354 --> 01:19:23.958 pregnant women who had been shelled, 01:19:24.058 --> 01:19:27.195 the people who live in hospital corridors 01:19:27.295 --> 01:19:30.031 because they have nowhere else to go. 01:19:39.073 --> 01:19:41.443 (distant explosion echoing) 01:19:56.992 --> 01:20:00.462 -(man shouts) -(explosion echoing) 01:20:12.507 --> 01:20:14.543 ♪ ♪ 01:20:24.986 --> 01:20:26.955 The Russians took over the hospital 01:20:27.055 --> 01:20:30.258 a few hours after we escaped. 01:20:30.358 --> 01:20:32.360 They've taken the Left Bank, 01:20:32.460 --> 01:20:36.230 except the Azovstal steel factory. 01:20:37.364 --> 01:20:40.535 And they are closing in on the city center. 01:20:42.403 --> 01:20:47.642 Ukrainian forces fight back, but they are outnumbered. 01:20:49.344 --> 01:20:54.616 The city is slowly dying like a human being. 01:20:59.687 --> 01:21:01.823 On the day we escaped from the hospital, 01:21:01.923 --> 01:21:05.026 the military task force moved us and Vladimir 01:21:05.126 --> 01:21:08.362 to an area still under Ukrainian control. 01:21:08.462 --> 01:21:13.033 And for days, we tried to find a way to get out of the city 01:21:13.134 --> 01:21:15.470 with all the footage. 01:21:15.570 --> 01:21:18.273 -(people shouting) -(child screaming) 01:21:21.075 --> 01:21:23.177 March 13th. 01:21:23.277 --> 01:21:26.614 Shelling of residential areas continues. 01:21:26.714 --> 01:21:28.917 (people chattering) 01:21:30.051 --> 01:21:32.254 (crying) 01:21:55.409 --> 01:21:57.445 (people conversing worriedly) 01:21:58.680 --> 01:22:00.582 (sobbing) 01:22:11.659 --> 01:22:13.261 CHERNOV: Without any information, 01:22:13.361 --> 01:22:16.164 people don't know who to blame. 01:22:55.169 --> 01:22:57.372 (debris clattering) 01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:07.115 CHERNOV: Vladimir keeps insisting 01:23:07.215 --> 01:23:09.383 we need to find a way to leave. 01:23:09.483 --> 01:23:12.654 But we no longer have our van. 01:23:12.754 --> 01:23:16.323 It was left behind in the hospital. 01:23:17.558 --> 01:23:21.362 And anyone who drives us with our cameras and hard drives 01:23:21.462 --> 01:23:26.501 through miles of occupied territory would be taking a risk. 01:23:27.335 --> 01:23:31.873 On March 15th, our editors send us a message: 01:23:31.973 --> 01:23:34.809 "Yesterday, some people were able to leave 01:23:34.909 --> 01:23:36.878 "with a Red Cross convoy, 01:23:36.978 --> 01:23:40.582 and there is another one leaving today." 01:23:50.858 --> 01:23:54.328 We go to the last functioning hospital in the city. 01:23:54.428 --> 01:23:56.264 (man clears throat) 01:24:02.069 --> 01:24:05.240 The Red Cross convoy has left. 01:24:07.575 --> 01:24:10.345 -(distant gunfire) -(explosions echoing) 01:24:14.982 --> 01:24:16.851 (man groaning in pain) 01:24:38.072 --> 01:24:40.375 (man screaming in pain) 01:24:41.209 --> 01:24:43.611 CHERNOV: I wish I could do more. 01:24:43.711 --> 01:24:45.279 Stay longer. 01:24:45.380 --> 01:24:47.348 But we need to leave. 01:24:50.818 --> 01:24:54.756 One of the doctors tells us to follow him to the basement. 01:25:51.512 --> 01:25:53.915 (distant explosion echoes) 01:26:18.739 --> 01:26:20.975 (debris crunches underfoot) 01:26:33.521 --> 01:26:36.724 CHERNOV: We need to catch up with the convoy. 01:26:37.692 --> 01:26:43.497 Vladimir says he can try to take us with his car. 01:26:43.597 --> 01:26:46.234 I tell him it's dangerous. 01:26:46.334 --> 01:26:50.637 But he wants to help to get us and our materials out. 01:26:50.737 --> 01:26:54.475 And he still hopes if the world saw everything 01:26:54.575 --> 01:26:56.644 that happened in Mariupol, 01:26:56.744 --> 01:26:59.914 it would give at least some meaning to this horror. 01:27:05.386 --> 01:27:07.922 (car horn honking) 01:27:15.563 --> 01:27:19.000 Vladimir's car was damaged by shelling 01:27:19.100 --> 01:27:21.636 but miraculously still runs. 01:27:22.670 --> 01:27:25.840 We are with his family. 01:27:32.613 --> 01:27:34.916 We make it through 100 kilometers 01:27:35.016 --> 01:27:40.488 of occupied territory and 15 Russian checkpoints, 01:27:40.588 --> 01:27:44.525 cameras and hard drives hidden under seats. 01:27:46.794 --> 01:27:51.466 By dawn, we finally catch up with the Red Cross convoy. 01:28:13.821 --> 01:28:17.959 Yesterday, I told one of the officers who extracted us 01:28:18.059 --> 01:28:22.263 from the hospital, "Thank you for saving us." 01:28:22.363 --> 01:28:27.668 He said, "Thank you for telling the story of this city." 01:28:27.768 --> 01:28:30.104 And yet, as we drive away, 01:28:30.204 --> 01:28:32.373 I keep thinking about all the people 01:28:32.473 --> 01:28:35.610 whose tragedies will remain unknown. 01:28:36.477 --> 01:28:38.812 I will see my daughters. 01:28:38.912 --> 01:28:42.650 And I can only hope that these people survive 01:28:42.750 --> 01:28:45.987 and will be with their families, too. 01:28:52.927 --> 01:28:54.962 ♪ ♪ 01:28:58.566 --> 01:29:00.234 REPORTER: The total number of refugees 01:29:00.334 --> 01:29:03.504 who have fled Ukraine so far is now nearing three million. 01:29:03.604 --> 01:29:05.572 REPORTER 2: And Russians continue to strangle 01:29:05.672 --> 01:29:07.274 and starve Mariupol. 01:29:07.374 --> 01:29:08.976 line:0% REPORTER 3: Got some new video this morning 01:29:09.076 --> 01:29:11.679 line:0% of 2,000 cars that officials say managed 01:29:11.779 --> 01:29:15.483 line:0% to make it out of Mariupol through a humanitarian corridor 01:29:15.583 --> 01:29:18.252 line:0% that Russia did not renege on. 01:29:18.352 --> 01:29:20.221 REPORTER 4: Devastating images are now 01:29:20.321 --> 01:29:22.623 emerging from Mariupol, where the mayor says the death toll 01:29:22.724 --> 01:29:25.759 could be as high as 20,000 since the war began. 01:29:25.859 --> 01:29:28.863 line:0% (reporters speaking in various languages) 01:29:31.132 --> 01:29:32.766 line:0% REPORTER 3: Leaving people without supply lines 01:29:32.866 --> 01:29:34.034 line:0% for food or water, without Internet connection 01:29:34.135 --> 01:29:35.903 line:0% to the outside world. 01:29:36.003 --> 01:29:37.905 line:0% REPORTER 5: It was a tragedy. 01:29:38.005 --> 01:29:40.808 This woman and her unborn child later died. 01:29:43.577 --> 01:29:45.879 line:0% REPORTER 6: And we know about the atrocities that have been 01:29:45.979 --> 01:29:47.581 line:0% happening inside Mariupol because of journalists 01:29:47.681 --> 01:29:49.349 line:0% from the Associated Press. 01:29:49.449 --> 01:29:51.719 line:0% The only international reporters to remain 01:29:51.819 --> 01:29:54.655 line:0% after the Russian bombardment bore witness 01:29:54.756 --> 01:29:58.058 line:0% to what have become indelible images of the war. 01:29:58.158 --> 01:30:00.294 line:0% WOMAN: AP reporters on the ground 01:30:00.395 --> 01:30:03.531 line:0% showed the world a mass grave in Mariupol. 01:30:03.631 --> 01:30:06.367 line:0% I'm talking about narrow trenches in Mariupol 01:30:06.467 --> 01:30:08.636 line:0% with babies' bodies in them. 01:30:08.736 --> 01:30:10.671 AP... AP journalists have been there. 01:30:10.771 --> 01:30:12.306 I've seen so many fakes. 01:30:12.406 --> 01:30:15.509 Who wins the-the information war, the one who wins the war. 01:30:15.609 --> 01:30:17.778 -Do you really, truly believe this? -(reporters clamoring) 01:30:17.878 --> 01:30:19.947 Do you truly believe what you're saying? 01:30:20.047 --> 01:30:22.083 ♪ ♪ 01:30:47.275 --> 01:30:49.477 ♪ ♪ 01:31:15.002 --> 01:31:17.038 ♪ ♪ 01:31:39.393 --> 01:31:41.596 ♪ ♪ 01:32:06.087 --> 01:32:08.122 ♪ ♪ 01:32:38.119 --> 01:32:40.154 ♪ ♪ 01:33:10.151 --> 01:33:12.186 ♪ ♪ 01:33:42.183 --> 01:33:44.218 ♪ ♪ 01:33:59.199 --> 01:34:01.235 (music fades)