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20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
Associated Press

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A team of Associated Press journalists were documenting the agony of Mariupol from inside the Ukrainian city when they learned their names were on a Russian list. AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov tells the story of their rescue by Ukrainian soldiers as the Russian forces closed in on a hospital treating the wounded. Chernov and his colleague Evgeniy Maloletka escaped the city on March 15 and passed through 15 checkpoints. And the hospital? It’s been taken over by Russian soldiers.

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