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>signals

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>not this

>is the first time I saw Z the Russian sign of

>war the hospital is

>surrounded dozens of doctors hundreds of patients and

>us I have no Illusions about what will happen to us if we are [Music]

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>February 24th 2022 the city looks normal someone once told me Wars don't start with explosions

>they start with

>silence when we realized that the invasion was imminent our team decided to go to marup

>we were sure it would be one of the main targets but we could never imagine the scale and that

>the whole country would be under [Music]

>attack

>an hour after we arrive the first bombs hit in the outskirts of the

>city

>a military base with anti-aircraft systems Russians are clearing the path for war

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>planes huge Port industrial city a bridge to Crimea we were here 8 years ago when Russia

>tried to take it and without a doubt they will try

>again we drive to the Left Bank the part of the

>city closest to Russia

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>this is the first person I speak to [Music]

>today I don't know if I should keep kill me or try to calm her

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>[Music] down I was wrong an hour later shells do hit this

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>for

>m

>there are no directives to evacuate the city but some people are leaving

>anyway

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>for I understand their anger their country is being attacked it's our country too and

>we have to tell its

>story

>they are almost no real bump shelters in the city so people hide in the basements of their

>apartment

>buildings suddenly the lights go out

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>we send videos in photos to our editors the war has begun Ukraine is now a nation at War

>190,000 Russian troops and their proxies coming from from Ukraine's northern eastern and southern

>borders Russia is moving fast after Putin stopped speaking on Q the missiles and air

>strikes began air rage Sirens sounded on and off K in the East and marapole in the South

>both came under heavy fire There's real anger in the air the hatred for Vladimir Putin is

>is

>palpable

>February 26th this is emergency broadcast system Russians are starting to surround the

>city taking towns and blocking the roads on the outskirts a quarter of the residents have

>left but most decided to

>stay this is terrasport Fitness Center now it's one of the biggest improvised shelters

>in the

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>people put tape on the mirror so fewer fragments are created when bombs

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>fall

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>this woman she's

>the one I told to stay home on the first

>day

>for I apologize I'm glad she's

>okay as I look at all these children I think about my daughters they also have to leave

>their home because of this

>war news comes from all over Ukraine and I cannot get over the feeling that something

>terrible is going to happen to this

>city missiles fired at civilian locations according to the ukrainians even though the

>Russians say they are not targeting

>civilians with their worst nightmare coming true thousands of citizens are trying to flee

>the country and those who are left behind have filled bomb shelters amid fears of Rocket

>attacks overnight Ukrainian soldiers like these have put up a stout defense of marapole

>because as a large Port it's economically vital and is a major city just 30 m from Russia

>it's strategic for both sides in this war it is quite a

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>prize February 27th soldiers are patrolling around emergency hospital number two a couple

>kilometers from the front line on the edge of the

>city so far Russians have not been able to break

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>through for the first time in marup Paul I hear a sound of a fighter

>jet the

>soldiers are tense and don't want to be

>filmed

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>siren [Music]

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>Evangelina 4 years

>old

>us officials warn that Russian forces are turning to their old and brutal tactics of

>laying Siege to cities while targeting civilians and infrastructure from afar punishing artillery

>and air strikes heavy losses as indiscriminate shelling rain down on apartment buildings

>the university in Flames show this to Putin a doctor said to an AP reporter the doctor

>wanted Vladimir Putin to see quote the eyes of this child and crying doctors anyone wanting

>to leave Maria Paul probably has to hit the road by tomorrow after which the last route

>out is expected to

>close March 2nd Russian strikes are causing problems with Internet and

>electricity all the international journalists we met in

>marup have left but we decide to stick with the Medics for a few

>days we drive to the Left Bank where the heaviest fighting is happening

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>oh this woman was standing on her balcony when the shell hit the house on the opposite

>side of the

>street

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>but shells don't just hit the Left Bank these days attacks happen all across the

>city

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>the boy was playing soccer with his friends when shelling started his legs were completely

>blown off

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>so [Music]

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>[Music] Ilia 16 years

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>the

>front line is closing in we've sent all the photos and videos notes to editors graphic

>content this is painful this is painful to watch but it must be painful to

>watch in the port city of Maro local officials say hundreds of casualties are now fear a

>father lost in grief over the body of his 16-year-old son Elia the electricity is gone

>the internet's gone the Russians are coming Maria pole awaits its

>fate March

>3rd the Shing has reached the neighborhood around

>the

>hospital foreign fore speech spee

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>spee patients are moved away from the windows and day after day the conditions in the hospital

>get

>worse this is one of the boys who was hit while playing

>soccer doctor smile at him but I hear a whisper that

>his leg may need to be amputated there are almost no antibiotics left to stop

>the

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>sepsis

>the internet and phones have stopped working and I'm sending short dispatches to our editors

>of the satellite

>phone the Mark is full so doctors store buies in utility

>rooms we stay in sleep in the hospital so far it seems to be the safest place

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>spee

>from our observation point on the seventh floor of the hospital I see the battle on

>the front line [Music] continues Russians are still trying to break into the

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>Kel 18 months

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>old

>for [Music]

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>all night we sit on the seventh floor of the hospital hoping to catch a connection to find

>a way to get this image is out nothing

>works I think about all this country has been through over the past 8 years all that I filmed

>revolution of dignity crimea's annexation Russia's invasion of donbas mh1 17 don't airport

>Siege war that seems endless thousands have died we keep filming and things stay the same

>worse even propaganda turns everything upside

>down I think about my daughters they were born into a world at war

>I wish I could see them

>now but all I have is a satellite phone to make short calls to editors we tell them maral

>is under siege Russians are killing civilians we are holding up tell our families we love

>them

>[Music] evacuations of Two besieged Cities in Ukraine are being delayed amid reports

>that Russia is violating a temporary ceasefire a city is surrounded by Russian troops and

>there is no way out even for any humanitarian help the situation is really dire in marup

>a corridor was planned to evacuate people from there and we've heard that it has not

>happened that Russian forces have continued to Shell the city that's what the mayor has

>said um we have no real time information of what's going on in the

>city

>this is the only radio signal you can catch in my you now over the next weeks Russia will

>bomb buildings cut electricity water supplies and finally crucially the cell phone radio

>television

>Towers we have to get out of the hospital to try to find the connection to see what's

>happening to the city

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>March 4th a mall near the hospital was

>destroyed

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>speee

>as we search for a connection we go neighborhood to neighborhood houses we saw standing days

>ago are

>destroyed [Music]

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>we follow the smoke houses hit by shells burn a humanitarian Corridor was open on March

>5th Vehicles fled the city only to be blocked by Russian forces then the road was

>closed

>for

>Red Cross police Ukrainian soldiers try to help and calm people

>down

>for

>the more people realize that they are trapped the more desperate they

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>grow come

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>the city changed so much so quickly when we were in the hospital one of the doctors told

>me war is like an x-ray all human insights become

>visible good people become better bad people

>worse but I thought it's not only the bombs lack of food water its isolation the inability

>to contact relatives to find out what's happening in other cities people charge cell phones

>from a generator just to use them as flashlights cut off we feel the same we still cannot send

>our

>images

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>fore

>speeech

>that night as we watch artillery shooting our phones suddenly pick up connection I split

>the footage into 10sec Clips set three phones on the window sill and sent [Music] bombs

>continued to rain down on the southern Ukrainian city of marup paal which was fully surrounded

>by Russian

>troops the Russians say they aren't targeting civilians this is 18month old Krill Medics

>try to save the boy they

>cannot

>March

>9th like a disease war is taken over the

>city we are back at the emergency hospital number

>two the few city workers that are still on duty collect bodies to be buried I recognize

>this

>[ __ ] it's Ilia the boy who was killed playing

>soccer

>somewhere among these black backs Li the other children we

>filmed

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>another truck arrives by this from the streets

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>my brain will desperately want to forget all this but the camera will not let it

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>happen

>the shock wave ears and skin feel the change of

>pressure we hide in the entryway of a building and wait for another strike praying it will

>not hit

>us

>is this is

>a [Music] we go to the top of the building and see the smoke just a few blocks away it's

>a

>hospital

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>I

>try to find out how many dead and wounded there are but in this chaos nobody can

>answer

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>for

>fore

>the name of the police officer speaking to us

>is Vladimir he wants to make a

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>statement and then he asks once more Russian troops commit war crimes our family our women

>our children need helps Our People needs help from International Society please help

>Mar Vladimir showed us the only place in the city where we could catch a signal and send

>the

>images outside a looted grocery store on budh

>Avenue

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>air strikes are happening

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>constantly Vladimir said the footage from the eternity hospital will change the course

>of the war but we have seen so many dead people dead children how could More Death change

>[Music] anything air strikes on the southern city of Maria pole destroyed a children's

>and maternity hospital for once the aftermath of a bombing here at the city's maternity

>hospital was filmed for the world to see horror and Devastation this is clearly the the worst

>and most egregious attack we have seen in this war so

>far the Associated Press also reports that city workers have had to create a mass grave

>to bury the dead now Ukrainian president belir zalinski calling this attack a war crime

>March

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>10th the city is still being bombed and now I can also hear heavy machine guns that means

>Russians have entered the

>city Vladimir the officer we met yesterday he's with

>us [Music]

>the

>last functioning Fire Department in the city destroyed by another air

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>I don't know if he survived we try not to stay long in one

>place

>the biggest university in the City was destroyed [Music]

>too

>new wounds every

>day

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>fore there something

>doing

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>we drive back to catch a signal at the spot on budhal Nik Avenue it's still the only place

>where you can get internet it's past cfum so ladimir accompanies

>us

>we check the news and speak to editors sorry what hold on back hold on hold on hold on

>hold

>on this [ __ ] is flying around hold on I can hear

>him I I I don't think there has been a moment today when there was not not an airplane in

>the air and uh the prognosis is very pessimistic I think they take the Left Bank already I

>gave them the latest but they are disturbing updates for us okay these women's stories

>have epitomized the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine and yet even their suffering has been questioned

>with Russian officials claiming on Twitter and in news programs that they

>must be

>actors this maternity hospital had already been seized by the azos Battalion and other

>radicals all the pregnant women all the nurses all the service Personnel were already expelled

>from

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>that this is information

>terrorism

>we hoped that the pregnant woman on the stretcher survived so we went to search for her and

>other victims at the emergency hospital number two soldiers are guarding the entrance

>[Applause] Vladimir says this is the red zone now the Russians have entered the

>neighborhood so he comes with

>us floor by floor we search for the pregnant women there is no maternity W so we tried

>the surgery Department

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>surgeons are overwhelmed and low on

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>painkillers this piece of SHP now was taken from a patient

>finally we find one of the doctors who treated the woman on the

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>stretcher

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>her name was Arena they said she screamed kill me when they brought her she knew her

>child was

>dead other survivors are

>here one of them has just given

>birth another is taken to an operating room she lost part of her foot in the bombing and

>doctors worry about the

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>we have to leave but the corridors are filled with people who lost homes

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>we head to the exit but it's too late soldiers say a sniper just shot an injured a nurse

>in front of the

>hospital

>two soldiers are still

>trapped [Music]

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>speech

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>we hear a low

>Rumble

>so we're run to the seventh floor to our observation point it's risky they can open fire at upper

>floors of the hospital but from here we can see

>more [Music]

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>sign was

>there they are

>coming closer if reinforcements don't arrive the soldiers downstairs will not be able to

>stop them they'll take over the hospital

>speee what should we do we need to send all this footage survivors from the maternity

>bombing tanks shooting at residential areas there is no connection here and we can't get

>to our car and if we get caught Vladimir says Russians will make you say everything you

>published was a lie

>the night is

>Sleepless F thoughts of past present and future rais through my

>mind I want all of this to stop but I have no power over it my memory keeps carrying

>me back home and back to

>war if someday my daughters asked me what did you do to stop this madness this sadistic

>virus of Destruction I want to be able to give them an

>answer

>this is a special military task

>force all night we hid inside the hospital and Vladimir used the last of His Radio battery

>to contact them

>this morning they broke into the surgery Department to rescue us they said we were already behind

>the Enemy

>Lines

>we are still wearing the scrubs the doctors gave us in case Russians entered the hospital

>that night

>we

>we

>r

>p check WR

>WR

>we run abandoning the doctors who have sheltered us pregnant women who had been shelled the

>people who live in hospital corridors because they have nowhere else to

>go what the

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>the Russians took over the hospital if few hours after we escaped they've taken the Left

>Bank except that of sty steel factory and they're closing in on the city center Ukrainian

>Forces fight back but they are

>outnumbered the city is slowly dying like a human

>being on the day we escaped from the hospital the military task force moved us in Vladimir

>to an area still under Ukrainian control and for days we tried to find a way to get out

>of the city with all the

>footage March 13th shling of residential areas continues

>foree

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>without any information people don't know who to

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>blame [Music]

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>foree

>vadir keeps insisting we need to find a way to leave but we no longer have our van it

>was left behind in the hospital and anyone who drives us with our cameras and hard drives

>through miles of occupied territory would be taken a risk on March 15th our editor sent

>us a message yesterday some people were able to leave with a red cross Convoy and there

>is another one leaving

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>today we go to the last functioning Hospital in the

>city

>the Red Cross Convoy has

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>left

>I wish I could do more stay longer but we need to

>leave one of the doctors tells us to follow him to the

>basement

>no longer

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>no for foreign

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>we need to get up with a convoy Vladimir says he can try to take us with his car I tell

>him it's dangerous but he wants to help to get us and our materials out and he still

>hopes if the world saw everything that happened in marup he would give at least some meaning

>to this

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>horror Vladimir's car was damaged by shelling but miraculously still runs we are with his

>family

>we make it through 100 kilm of occupied territory and 15 Russian checkpoints cameras and hard

>drives hidden under

>seats by Tone we finally catch up with a red cross

>Convoy

>yesterday I told one of the officers who extracted us from the hospital thank you for saving

>us he said thank you for telling the story of this city and yet as we drive away I keep

>thinking about all the people whose tragedies will remain unknown I will see my daughters

>and I can only hope that these people survive and will be with their families [Music]

>too the total number of refugees who have fled Ukraine so far is now nearing 3 million

>and Russians continue to strangle and starve Mar opal we got some new video this morning

>of 2,000 cars that officials say managed to make it out of Mari opal through a humanitarian

>Corridor that Russia did not renig on devastating images are now emerging from Mar op where

>the mayor says the death toll could be as high as 20,000 since the War Began

>leaving people without supply lines for food or water without internet connection to the

>outside world it was a tragedy this woman and her unborn child later died now we know

>about the atrocities that have been happening inside Mar opo because of journalists from

>the Associated Press the only International Porter Shain after the Russian bombardment

>bore witness to what have become indelible images of the war AP reporters on the ground

>showed the world a mass grave in Mario pool I'm talking about narrow trenches in Mario

>pole with babies bodies in AP AP journalists have been there seen so many fakes who wins

>the the information War the one wins the do do you really truly believe this do you truly

>believe what you're

>saying

>that

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>for

>now

>for