A rescue mission outside of Kyiv
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Many of those who are covering the war in Ukraine also call it home. Today on Post Reports, the story of a reporting trip to Chernihiv that also became a rescue mission for one of our colleagues.
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As the battle for the east of Ukraine intensifies, we take you to a city north of Kyiv that survived weeks of Russian siege. It also happens to be the hometown of Kostiantyn Khudov, a Ukrainian journalist who has been working for The Post since before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February.
The relationship between foreign and local journalists is a crucial one — as Kostiantyn and The Post’s Siobhán O’Grady explain, it allows the world to see what’s happening in cities like Chernihiv.
Today we go there with Siobhan and Kostiantyn, and learn what it’s like to cover a war so close to home.
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| 0:00.0 | A couple of months ago, two of the post-reporters in Ukraine were driving into Chernigiv. |
| 0:12.8 | That's Kostya Hudoff and Shivano Grady. |
| 0:16.1 | Just days earlier, this road that they were on had been heavily shelved, and several |
| 0:20.6 | people had been killed. |
| 0:25.4 | This was back in April, when the international media had not been able to get into Chernigiv |
| 0:30.2 | for many weeks. |
| 0:32.0 | So the world didn't know what had happened there yet. |
| 0:34.9 | Russia had pulled back from the city, and finally it seemed possible for the post-team to |
| 0:40.0 | go. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:42.0 | Was that a house? |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:44.0 | Of course. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:47.7 | This is really bad. |
| 0:53.4 | Every house is just destroyed. |
| 0:56.1 | Things are just piles of rubble. |
| 0:59.5 | These look pretty nice. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah, my god. |
| 1:05.1 | Look at this one. |
| 1:11.8 | This reporting trip was also personal for Kostya. |
| 1:14.8 | Chernigiv is his hometown. |
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