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Signal 112, over.

Signal 112, over.

Signal, by Hospital No. 2 there are tanks with the letter "Z."

Did you see it?

I saw it myself, with my own eyes.

I have a visual on it myself, by Hospital No. 2.

Opposite the church, where the buses are parked.

Tanks have entered, with the letter "Z."

Film it.

MSTYSLAV CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

Yes.

I am with the journalists.

Yes, I'm with the journalists.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: I have no illusions about

what will happen to us if we are caught.

They're turning the cannons.

Quickly. Quickly.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: February 24, 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 Mariupol.

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 attack.

I have made the decision to carry out a special military operation.

We are not planning to occupy Ukrainian territories.

We are not going to impose anything on anyone by force.

Our actions are self-defense against the threats posed to us

and from an even greater disaster than what is happening today.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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 warplanes.

Huge port, industrial city,

a bridge to Crimea.

We were here eight 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.

My son is at work. I'm alone.

Where should I run?

Where should I hide?

Where? Please tell me.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: This is the first person

I speak to today.

Go sit in the basement, go home.

I don't know if I should keep filming

or try to calm her down.

Go home, stay home.

They don't shoot at civilians, go home.

Go home, don't run anywhere.

I'm waiting for my son.

He should come soon from work.

Go home, he will come home from work.

Do you think a missile won't hit the house?

No, it won't.

Go to the basement and stay there.

Hold on, fuck, stop throwing.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: I was wrong.

An hour later, shells do hit this neighborhood.

Something hit over there and started to burn.

And it stank and stank.

So hmmm..

Is there a possibility that Mariupol

will come under the control of the Russian Federation?

It's possible. I'd really rather it not.

I really don't want that.

What is it that you don't want?

I want to live in Ukraine, in peace and quiet.

I watched Putin's speech online today, fuck.

Where he tells his citizens beautifully, so beautifully

that it's absolutely necessary to attack Ukraine.

Because otherwise Ukraine will attack Russia first.

Insanity.

Ukrainian government announcement: Dear citizens of Ukraine...

Martial law has been imposed in the state.

This is a necessary step for the security of the country and our victory

Keep calm. Strictly follow the instructions of the military and local authorities in your cities

and do not succumb to hostile misinformation.

Our windows were hit.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: There are no directives

to evacuate the city,

but some people are leaving anyway.

They destroyed, plundered everything.

I had to leave my house, to leave everything that I own. What is this?

Don't run after me. That's it.

What's your name?

I have no name.

Tell your first name and patronymic at least.

No.

What's your name?

Fuck you, prostitute.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: I understand their anger.

Their country is being attacked.

It's our country, too,

and we have to tell its story.

There are almost no real bomb shelters in the city,

so people hide in the basements of their apartment buildings.

Suddenly, the lights go out.

Oh Mom, don't worry please, don't worry.

Everything is fine, okay?

Okay, bye.

Everything will pass.

Why are you upset?

I don't want to die.

I wish it would all end soon.

I woke up from..

from bombings today.

And I realized that the war started.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We send videos and photos

to our editors.

The war has begun.

Ukraine is now a nation at war.

190,000 Russian troops and their proxies

coming from Ukraine's northern, eastern and southern borders.

Russia is moving fast.

After Putin stopped speaking,

on cue, the missiles and air strikes began.

Air raid sirens sounded on and off.

Kharkiv in the east and Mariupol in the south

RUSSIA LAUNCHES INVASION OF UKRAINE

both came under heavy fire.

There's real anger in the air.

The hatred for Vladimir Putin is... is palpable.

The Ukrainian forces have destroyed military vehicles, transport, and soldiers of the Russian Federation...

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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 city.

People put tape on the mirrors so fewer fragments are created

when bombs fall.

I'm worried not for myself, but for my child.

If I didn't have a child, I would be at home.

I'm scared for my child, who has barely lived.

What did we do to deserve this?

What are these people guilty of?

I don't understand why this is happening. This is trash.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: This woman,

she's the one I told to stay home on the first day.

You told me to go home.

"They will not shoot at civilians."

And I came home.

And then they hit.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: I apologize.

I'm glad she is okay.

Go sleep with Lilya.

I don't want to.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

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 Mariupol

because, as a large port, it's economically vital,

and as a major city just 30 miles from Russia,

it's strategic.

For both sides in this war, it is quite a prize.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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 through.

A plane. Hide.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: For the first time in Mariupol,

I hear a sound of a fighter jet.

Zhenya says there was an explosion in the sky.

An airplane.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: The soldiers are tense

and don't want to be filmed.

Do you have a journalist badge?

Yes.

Don't film. Please.

Understand, this is a historical war.

To not document is...

To not document it is impossible.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We're interrupted

by an ambulance siren.

We need CPR.

It's a kid, a kid.

My baby. Oh God.

7, 8, 9, 10

Sanya, Sanya, let's move her to the gurney.

Bring her out, bring her here. Come

We can make it.

Please save my child.

Go.

Breathe, breathe, breathe.

Here are the small kits.

And a pediatric intubation stylet.

4.5

With the stylet.

Stylet.

The second adrenaline.

Film how these motherfuckers are killing civilians.

Show this Putin bastard the eyes of this child

and all these doctors who are crying.

Rotting bastard.

That's how he saves people.

Show it.

It's good that there's press here.

Keep filming.

Everyone stand back.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Evangelina, four years old.

U.S. 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.

...these 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 Mariupol

probably has to hit the road by tomorrow,

after which the last route out is expected to close.

No, it's not charging at all.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: March 2nd.

Russian strikes are causing problems with Internet

and electricity.

Give me the helmet.

Give me my stethoscope.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: All the international journalists

we met in Mariupol 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.

What apartment?

254 CHERNOV [voice-over]: This woman was standing

on her balcony when the shell hit the house

on the opposite side of the street.

But shells don't just hit the Left Bank.

These days, attacks happen all across the city.

Tell us what happened on Kirova Street.

Missiles hit and there were lots of victims.

Cars burned up, there was lots of shrapnel.

The Russian Federation claims that it does not shoot civilians.

Well, we only had civilians in our courtyard. I didn't see any soldiers.

Check her pressure.

Here, come with me.

Should we say more? A young man.

These are local residents after the shelling of the Kirov district,

an ordinary quiet district.

Were you caught in the shelling?

Did you get her name? She has an open scalp wound.

Here, look.

Look, see?

Film this.

One, two, three.

Come on. Let's go, let's go.

Let's go.

Are these Kirov district residents?

Yes, yes, all of them.

We need help.

Where, where should we bring him?

To the operating room.

Go get the second one.

My son. My poor son.

They were next to the school.

Next to which school?

School No. 29.

Sixteen years old.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: The boy was playing soccer

with his friends when shelling started.

His legs were completely blown off.

Son, son, son, son.

My son.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Ilya, 16 years old.

The front line is closing in.

We've sent all the photos and videos.

Note to editors: graphic content.

This is painful.

This is painful to watch.

But it must be painful to watch.

In the port city of Mariupol,

local officials say hundreds of casualties are now feared.

A father lost in grief

over the body of his 16-year-old son Ilya.

The electricity's gone.

The Internet's gone.

The Russians are coming.

Mariupol awaits its fate.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: March 3rd.

Lie down. Lie down.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: The shelling has reached

the neighborhood around the hospital.

Stay down, stay down. Don't get up.

Mom, everything is okay.

Stay down and don't move. I beg you.

You are the most important thing to me.

Think about us.

I beg you, stay down.

Girls, lie down.

God save us.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

Doctors 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 sepsis.

Ow, my leg.

The one you have, or the one you don't have?

The one I have.

We continue to work without electricity, water and heat.

There are some issues with supplies.

Particularly, not enough painkillers.

Anyway, that's how we've been at the workplace for over a week now.

Some even more.

We continue to work.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: The Internet and phones

have stopped working,

and I'm sending short dispatches to our editors

over the satellite phone.

The morgue is full, so doctors store bodies in utility rooms.

Let's go through. Gently.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We stay and sleep in the hospital.

So far, it seems to be the safest place.

Shelling, shelling...

Okay, guys, keep calm.

We are nothing but calm.

The whole world fell apart and we are just standing here and smoking.

It didn't fall apart.

Yet.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: From our observation point

on the seventh floor of the hospital,

I see the battle on the front line continues.

Russians are still trying to break into the city.

Trauma?

Please, his head is bleeding.

What do we do?

Did you call for guys from ICU?

There is no heartbeat.

Everyone is already here.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Kyryl, 18 months old.

Set the defibrillator to blue.

Let's try one more time.

Yes, try again.

The heart.

Oh my God.

You couldn't save him?

How?

But why? Why?

Why?

CHERNOV [voice-over]: All night, we sit

on the seventh floor of the hospital,

hoping to catch a connection,

to find a way to get these images out.

Nothing works.

I think about all this country has been through

over the past eight years,

all that I've filmed.

Revolution of Dignity.

Crimea's annexation.

Russia's invasion of Donbas.

MH17.

Donetsk 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, "Mariupol is under siege.

"Russians are killing civilians.

"We are holding up.

Tell our families we love them."

Evacuations of two besieged cities in Ukraine

are being delayed amid reports that

Russia is violating a temporary cease-fire.

The city is surrounded by Russian troops,

MARCH 10, 2022

and there is no way out,

even for any humanitarian help.

Ukraine port city Marisol blockaded by Russians

The situation is really dire in Mariupol.

A courier that 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.

The city of Mariupol is blockaded from all sides.

You are completely surrounded.

We don't want unnecessary sacrifices.

You are given the opportunity to walk away from war hostilities.

Voluntarily lay down your arms.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: This is the only radio signal

you can catch in Mariupol 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 a connection,

to see what's happening to the city.

Air raid.

It is Port City, fuck.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: March 4th.

A mall near the hospital was destroyed.

Fuck. I think they need help.

Fucking hell.

It could hit here as well.

It could.

Why the fuck do they need to steal all this stuff now?

So fucked.

What happened?

They hit Foxtrot and Eldorado.

And what is that?

Electronics.

Foxtrot... you mean Port City?

Yes.

And what about people?

My friends were there...

It exploded 10 meters from my friends.

I don't know if they survived...

CHERNOV [voice-over]: As we search for a connection,

we go neighborhood to neighborhood.

Houses we saw standing days ago are destroyed.

This is my house now.

Please, good people. What is happening here?

We don't have any electricity, we don't have anything to eat, we don't have any medications.

We have nothing left.

What happened to my house?

Where are you boys from?

Kharkiv.

Can't anybody do anything, they're killing us here.

What is your name?

Ludmila.

Ludmila, what is your last name?

Amelkina.

Ludmila, this used to be your house?

Yes.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We follow the smoke.

Houses hit by shells burn.

A humanitarian corridor was opened on March 5th.

Vehicles fled the city,

only to be blocked by Russian forces.

Then the road was closed.

There is no corridor today. They weren't able to come to an agreement.

International organizations are pressuring all parties in the conflict to organize the corridor.

There is a lot of humanitarian aid.

However to access it, we need the corridor to be opened.

Okay, the corridor, and then where do we go?

We need some information. We have no information.

We don't have information ourselves.

We're cut off from the rest of Ukraine, from everyone.

Who will drive us?

Can you film me? Maybe my mom will see this. We don't have any service.

Can you tell me please about the situation?

We have no water, no power, no gas. We cook outside.

The kids are scared.

There is shelling.

The green corridor is temporarily suspended until further notice. March 6, 2022.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Red Cross, police,

Ukrainian soldiers try to help and calm people down.

The outskirts of the city are being bombed. Everything is mined.

As of now, negotiations were unsuccessful at creating a safe passage for civilians.

Believe me, I'm in the same boat. I have a family at home that I am worried about.

Unfortunately, right now, it's safest to stay within the city

in basements, in shelters, and so on.

Basements in the city are safe?

They're the safest places where we can be for now.

We are staying calm.

If there is to be an evacuation, we'll drive around and notify you with loudspeakers.

There is a body over there.

Guys, film so the whole world will see this chaos.

We're filming everything.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: The more people realize

that they are trapped,

the more desperate they grow.

They stole everything.

My house is destroyed and my car has burned up.

What happened?

Natasha, are you here?

Yeah.

Our entire building has been shelled.

All the windows have been blown out.

Natasha...

And the car is burned up.

We'll solve it.

Natasha.

I can't.

Are you people or some kind of animals?

Where are you going with toys, you asshole? You bitch, are you going to play ball now?

Put it back. Why are you stealing everything?

Jesus, here have your ball back.

Why are you even in here?

What are you doing? Why are you coming in here?

Is this a fucking giveaway or what?

We have kids on the Left Bank.

Why are you taking what's not yours? Thieves.

On the ground.

This is my husband.

That's enough, go home, fuck off.

Home, go home. Home, home.

The motherfuckers are robbing the fucking grocery stores and banks.

Fuckers.

People, just get together.

There's no need to create panic.

There's no need to loot anyone. You'll be living here anyways, this is your home.

Why are you bashing the windows of your own fucking stores?

Will there be a green corridor today?

First, women, children, old people.

Men, you can go and find water.

There are wells around Mariupol right by the bridge post.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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 insides become visible."

Thank you.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: "Good people become better.

Bad people worse."

Vasya wants to survive, too.

Vasya wants to live.

Where did you get him?

He's our pet.

You can't just abandon him.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: But I thought,

"It's not only the bombs, lack of food, water.

"It's 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.

Don't cry.

Don't cry?

Don't cry?

I want to go home. I want to go back to work.

I feel sorry for my city, for the people.

I feel sorry for the children.

Does it matter to you who will control the city?

I don't want it to belong to Russia.

I don't want to live in Russia, I want to live in Ukraine.

I don't want Russia here.

I absolutely don't want it.

Not even a bit.

The flame is going out.

There's no kerosene left, so it's about to go out.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: That night,

as we watch artillery shooting,

our phones suddenly pick up connection.

I split the footage into ten-second clips,

set three phones on the windowsill and send.

Bombs continued to rain down

on the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol,

which was fully surrounded by Russian troops.

The Russians say

they aren't targeting civilians.

This is 18-month-old Kyryl.

Medics try to save the boy.

They cannot.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: March 9th.

Like a disease, war is taking 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 sheet.

It's Ilya, the boy who was killed playing soccer.

Difficult?

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Somewhere among these black bags

lie the other children we filmed.

What are you feeling right now?

If I start talking, I'm going to cry. I won't be able to talk.

Just tell what you're feeling.

What I'm feeling...

I don't know what I feel right now. What are people supposed to feel in this situation?

The main thing is that this needs to end.

I don't know who's to blame, who is right, who unleashed all of this.

But let them all be damned..

the people who started this.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Another truck arrives.

Bodies from the streets.

My brain will desperately want to forget all this.

But the camera will not let it happen.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

Why the fuck is this locked?

It's coming back.

Where did they drop it?

Over there. Over there.

What's there?

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We go to the top of the building

and see the smoke just a few blocks away.

It's a hospital.

Here!

The surgical wing, two-story building, where the maternity ward was before.

Hurry up.

Which building?

There. Go there, faster.

Shh, shh, it's ok.

Is there any water?

Everything is okay, Tonychka.

It's okay, I'm okay.

Where should we go?

Just go there.

Where?

Here.

Oh my God.

The cars are destroyed.

Calm down.

Shh, calm down.

Your legs and arms are not injured? Everything is fine.

My mom.

Where is your mom?

She is...

Go inside.

Inside.

Calm down.

Don't panic.

Watch out.

Go, go, go.

Let's go.

Where?

Go down.

Don't panic.

Careful, wait.

Bring it higher, higher.

Come on, come on.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: I try to find out

how many dead and wounded there are.

But in this chaos, nobody can answer.

We need to take them to the second maternity hospital.

How are you doing?

Hmm?

How are you?

I'm good. I mean I feel fine.

Yes, let's go. Please.

I got your things.

Thank you so much.

Third floor. Is there anyone alive?

Did you film the children that were taken from the hospital?

Yes, we filmed everyone, that pregnant woman too.

Filmed it?

Yes.

To show it to these Russian fuckers.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: The name of the police officer

speaking to us is Vladimir.

He wants to make a statement.

Let's start?

Yes, look towards me.

Today, Russian occupants carried out a grave criminal attack.

They carried out a bomb attack on the center of Mariupol.

They destroyed a maternity hospital with bombs.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: And then he asks once more.

Russian troops commit...

...war crimes.

Our family, our womens,

our children need helps.

Our people needs help from international society.

Please help Mariupol.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Vladimir showed us

the only place in the city

where we could catch a signal and send the images.

Straight ahead, keep going straight, right there.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Outside a looted grocery store

on Budivel'nykiv Avenue.

Plane.

Fuck. Hide.

They could hit here.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Air strikes are

happening constantly.

Where did it hit? Here, fuck?

Yeah, there.

Is there internet?

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Vladimir said the footage

from the maternity hospital

will change the course of the war.

But we have seen so many dead people.

Dead children.

How could more death change anything?

Air strikes on the southern city of Mariupol

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 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.

And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

calling this attack a war crime.

Everything the occupiers are doing to Mariupol is a downright atrocity.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: March 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, is with us.

We are under an airstrike, anyone available, come immediately.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: The last functioning fire department

in the city destroyed by another air strike.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: I don't know if he survived.

We try not to stay long in one place.

The biggest university in the city was destroyed, too.

There's a plane.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: New wounds every day.

What's happening?

I'm moving to my wife.

What's happening to the city?

Well, you can see, they're shooting.

What can I say?

That's life.

Why are you moving?

Well, my house is gone.

That's why I'm moving.

What did you think?

What happened to your home?

It's gone. Shelled. It was probably a shell that hit it.

What's your name?

Alexander.

I'm Mstyslav.

What's your surname?

Ivanov.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I lived in Volonterivka.

And now I will live who knows where?

How long have you been walking?

Probably around four hours now.

Under shooting?

Well, what are you going to do? They're shooting and I'm walking.

That's it.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We drive back to catch a signal

at the spot on Budivel'nykiv Avenue.

It's still the only place where you can get Internet.

It's past curfew, so Vladimir accompanies us.

Vladimir: Guys, your reporting spread.

You did a big thing.

Otherwise, no one would know what happened.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We check the news

and speak to editors.

CHERNOV [on-screen]: Sorry, what?

Hold on. Hold on.

It's coming back. Hold on.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

This motherfucker is flying around.

Hold on. I can hear him.

I-I don't think there has been a moment today

when there was not-not an airplane in the air.

And, uh...

And the prognosis is very pessimistic.

I think they have taken the Left Bank already.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: I give them the latest.

But there are disturbing updates for us.

Okay.

REPORTER [voice-over]: These women's stories have epitomized

the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine.

CNN INVESTIGATES MARIUPOL MATERNITY HOSPITAL STRIKE

And yet, even their suffering has been questioned,

with Russian officials claiming on Twitter

and in news programs that they must be actors.

This is what we call "fake news" and staged photos and videos.

The most recent fake is from Mariupol.

This maternity hospital had already been

seized by the Azov Battalion and other radicals.

All the pregnant women, all the nurses,

all the service personnel were already expelled from there.

That supposed airstrike was a fully staged provocation.

The hospital was turned into a film set with extras and actors.

The first shots were published by well known Ukrainian propogandist Evgeniy Maloletka

who works for Western media.

This is information terrorism.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

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 ward, so we try the surgery department.

Surgeons are overwhelmed and low on painkillers.

This piece of shrapnel was taken from a patient.

Hold the tube.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Finally, we find one of the doctors

who treated the woman on the stretcher.

Tell us please, after the explosion, a pregnant woman was brought in?

A pregnant woman, around 30 years old, was brought in.

It was her first pregnancy. Her injuries were incompatible with life.

The pelvis was completely shattered and there was significant blood loss.

We did everything we could.

But we were unable to save her.

The woman died. The baby also died in the womb.

The dead child was extracted.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Her name was Iryna.

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 child.

Wait, wait, wait, I'll do it again.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, legs, ears, legs.

Turn the head upside down.

She's opened her eyes right away.

Who's my little baby.

She survived the destroyed Maternity Hospital No. 3.

It was bombed and so they were brought here.

They've survived so much with their moms, everyone who gave birth here.

We don't even have a maternity ward here. We only have a gynecology department.

All these patients are from Hospital No. 3.

These are children, and...

Are you hungry?

We have to wait, kitten.

Oh, she's hungry now, nom nom.

Hungry little kitten.

Is that an airstrike?

Yeah, it's an airstrike.

Everyone leave the surgery room. Everyone!

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We have to leave.

But the corridors are filled with people

who lost homes, relatives.

We went to my brother's house, all together

so that it wouldn't be as frightening.

We went down to the basement. Women with children all went down to the basement.

A shell hit.

We were buried in the cellar.

We lost two children.

They couldn't be saved.

The girl was seven years old and the boy was five years old.

What can I tell you? That we've spent two weeks in hell?

You don't know where to run.

Who will return our children to us?

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We head to the exit, but it's too late.

Soldiers say a sniper just shot and injured a nurse

in front of the hospital.

At the central entrance, yes?

Yes, somewhere there.

Uphold maximum security measures.

Make way.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Two soldiers are still trapped.

Where are you?

He is behind the car, on the side.

I don't see you.

The ambulance just came, damn.

Go around.

Easy, easy.

Fuck.

I need something, a movement, even a shadow, something.

Go back.

Derek.

Come here.

Good job, brother, good job.

Explain the situation.

One moment.

Take a breath.

I'm going to smoke first.

Go ahead.

Get in.

Come in quickly.

Get in. Run in.

Don't bring the child anymore. Only by yourself.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We hear a low rumble.

Signal 580. Signal 580.

Tank?

I don't know. Maybe.

Did you see it?

They're not ours.

"Z"

Is it coming here?

They stopped right now.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: So we 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.

Signal, by Hospital No. 2 there are tanks with the letter "Z."

I have a visual on it myself, by Hospital No. 2.

Opposite the church, where the buses are parked.

Tanks have entered, with the letter "Z."

Film it.

Signal 112, over.

Signal. On Kuprina Street there are two more tanks with the letter "Z.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: They are coming closer.

If reinforcements don't arrive,

the soldiers downstairs will not be able to stop them.

They will take over the hospital.

They're turning the cannons.

Quickly. Quickly.

They must be approaching from the other side as well.

There are many. More are coming.

Where?

From the other side.

So, they broke through then?

Evgeniy. Evgeniy. Keep your head down.

There was a sniper on this side, remember?

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

Feverish thoughts of past, present and future

race 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 ask 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's battery

to contact them.

This morning, they broke into

the surgery department to rescue us.

They said we were already behind enemy lines.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We are still wearing the scrubs

the doctors gave us,

in case Russians entered the hospital that night.

Come on, come on. Forward. Faster. Move faster.

Come on, come on. Forward. Faster. Move faster.

Go, go. Quickly.

Let's go.

Roma. Roma, let's go.

Roma, lead the way.

Run, run, run.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

Okay, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Do you see the Ukrainian flag?

The three of you go to the car.

The Russians took over the hospital

a few hours after we escaped.

They've taken the Left Bank,

except the Azovstal steel factory.

And they are 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 and 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.

They shelled the house!

March 13th.

Shelling of residential areas continues.

Papa.

Papa.

Plane overhead.

Fuck. Cluster bombs.

Quickly, quickly, quickly.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Without any information,

people don't know who to blame.

They didn't open the corridor.

You did this to us.

I did this to you?

No, not you, of course.

Who is bombing us? Tell us.

The Russian Federation planes are bombing you.

We said, "Get the kids out."

I wish the firefighters would at least come to put out the fire.

About the fire station...

Three days ago, the Russian Federation bombed the only fire station.

is this interesting to you?

Yeah, yeah, keep filming us. Ukrainian army is fucking bombing us.

Yeah, morons, keep filming us.

Who is bombing us?

Vladimir: Let's go.

Wait, wait, wait.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: Vladimir 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 taking a risk.

On March 15th, our editors send us a message:

"Yesterday, some people were able to leave

"with a Red Cross convoy,

and there is another one leaving today."

We go to the last functioning hospital in the city.

The Red Cross convoy has left.

Hang on, bear with me.

Where do we carry him?

Okay ladies, hurry.

Where is the...

I don't know.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: 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.

Watch your step here, there's broken glass.

Over here, this way.

This is everyone who couldn't be saved.

I can't show you the face.

Here. This one is so little.

It's hard.

It's very hard.

Well, you get used to everything. But then in the evening, it doesn't leave your mind.

CHERNOV [voice-over]: We need to catch up with the 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 Mariupol,

it would give at least some meaning to this horror.

Vladimir's car was damaged by shelling

but miraculously still runs.

We are with his family.

We make it through 100 kilometers

of occupied territory and 15 Russian checkpoints,

cameras and hard drives hidden under seats.

By dawn, we finally catch up with the 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, too.

The total number of refugees

who have fled Ukraine so far is now nearing three million.

And Russians continue to strangle

and starve Mariupol.

Got some new video this morning

of 2,000 cars that officials say managed

to make it out of Mariupol through a humanitarian corridor

that Russia did not renege on.

Devastating images are now

emerging from Mariupol, 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.

And we know about the atrocities that have been

happening inside Mariupol because of journalists

from the Associated Press.

The only international reporters to remain

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 Mariupol.

I'm talking about narrow trenches in Mariupol

with babies' bodies in them.

AP... AP journalists have been there.

I've seen so many fakes.

Who wins the-the information war, the one who wins the war.

Do you really, truly believe this? -

Do you truly believe what you're saying?

Mariupol fell by day 86.

An estimated 25,000 people died in the siege. The true toll is likely much higher.

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