Life & Death In A Ukrainian War Zone

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We go inside the first days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine with journalist Mstyslav Chernov. He and his team were the only international journalists to spend the first 20 days covering the siege of the city of Mariupol. "I just understood that we need to record everything. Every frame, every second."A new PBS FRONTLINE documentary features their images — the constant shelling of the city, mass graves, and graphic images of women and children who are suffering and dying. Chernov is a video journalist for the Associated Press. He and his team won a Pulitzer Prize for their work in Mariupol.

Later, Maureen Corrigan reviews a new short story collection by Claire Keegan.

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0:15.7	This is Fresh Air.
0:16.5	I'm Tanya Mosley.
0:18.3	Throughout history, from Vietnam to the latest conflict in Israel and Gaza, visual images of conflict can offer unparalleled
0:25.9	perspectives of the grim brutalities of war. A gripping new documentary takes us to the
0:31.2	first days of the war in Ukraine,
0:33.4	inside the city of Mariopel,
0:35.2	where a team of Ukrainian journalists
0:36.9	with the Associated Press,
0:38.6	captured some of the most harrowing and defining
0:41.0	images of the first days of war,
0:43.0	from the bombing of a maternity hospital
0:45.0	to mass graves and dying children.
0:48.0	The team has produced a new film based on those images
0:51.0	called 20 days in Marielpo.
0:55.0	February 24th, 2022.
0:59.0	The city looks normal.
1:02.0	Someone once told me. wars don't start with explosions. They start with
1:07.5	silence. When we realized that the invasion was imminent, our team decided to go to Marimpo.
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