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Russia expected to capture Kiev within the first week of the war,

and we saw a sort of triumphant attitude on Russian state TV in the first days.

They got marked down in a fierce fighting with Ukrainian soldiers for weeks.

Evan Gershkovich, 31 years old, an American citizen with Russian heritage.

He worked for Wall Street Journal in Moscow.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year,

he was there on the front line reporting,

his colleagues will tell you just how passionate he is about telling unheard stories.

In the early days of the conflict, Evan got himself into Belarus

and down to the border with Ukraine,

where he was able to watch Russian soldiers who had been fighting

coming back over the border to be treated.

He was the only Western reporter in that location able to get that story,

and that was a huge exclusive and really gave a kind of new insight

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