20 Days in Mariupol (full documentary) | Academy Award® Winner | FRONTLINE + @AssociatedPress

signal signal signals [Music] not 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 I have no Illusions about what will happen to us if we are [Music] [Music] C February 24th 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 marup 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 [Music] attack 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 war [Music] planes huge Port industrial city a bridge to Crimea we were here 8 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 [Music] this is the first person I speak to [Music] today I don't know if I should keep kill me or try to calm her [Music] [Music] down I was wrong an hour later shells do hit this [Music] neighborhood for m there are no directives to evacuate the city but some people are leaving anyway [Music] for I understand their anger their country is being attacked it's our country too and we have to to tell its story they are almost no real bump shelters in the city so people hide in the basements of their apartment buildings suddenly the lights go out fore speee foree spee spee spee 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 Q the missiles and air strikes began air rage Sirens sounded on and off K in the East and marapole in the South both came under heavy fire There's real anger in the air the hatred for Vladimir Putin is is palpable 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 [Music] [Music] city people put tape on the mirror so fewer fragments are created when bombs [Music] fall [Music] for this woman she's the one I told to stay home on the first day for I apologize I'm glad she's okay 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 marapole because as a large Port it's economically vital and as a major city just 30 m from Russia it's strategic for both sides in this war it is quite a [Music] prize 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 [Music] [Music] through for the first time in marup I hear a sound of a fighter jet the soldiers are tense and don't want to be filmed [Music] interrupted by an ambulance siren [Music] [Music] foree [Music] fore speee [Music] [Music] for [Music] Evangelina 4 years old us 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 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 Maria Paul probably has to hit the road by tomorrow after which the last route out is expected to close March 2nd Russian strikes are causing problems with Internet and electricity all the international journalists we met in marup 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 Happ happening [Music] oh this woman was standing on her balcony when the shell hit the house on the opposite side of the street [Music] but shells don't just hit the Left Bank these days attacks happen all across the city for spee [Music] [Music] spe for [Music] [Music] speee [Music] the boy was playing soccer with his friends when shelling started his legs were completely blown off [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] Ilia 16 years [Music] old the front line is closing in we've sent all the photos and videos notes to editors graphic content this is painful this is painful to watch but it must be painful to watch in the port city of mar opo local officials say hundreds of casualties are now fear a father lost in grief over the body of his 16-year-old son Elia the electricity is gone the internet's gone the Russians are are coming Maria pole awaits its fate March 3rd the shelling has reached the neighborhood around the hospital [Music] foree spee spee fore [Music] [Music] spee 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 [Music] sepsis the internet and phones have stopped working and I'm sending short dispatches to our editors so of the satellite phone the Mark is full so doctors store buies in utility rooms we stay in sleep in the hospital so far it seems to be the safest place fore spee from our observation point on the seventh floor of the hospital I see the battle on the front line [Music] continues Russians are still trying to break into the [Music] city Kel 18 months [Music] old fore speee [Music] [Music] spee for what you move what [Music] [Music] [Music] youve all night we sit on the seventh floor of the hospital hoping to catch a connection to find a way to get this image is out nothing works I think about all this country has been through over the past 8 years all that I filmed revolution of dignity crimea's annexation Russia's invasion of donbas mh1 17 d 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 Mar upal is under siege Russians are killing civilians we are holding up tell our families we love them [Music] evacuations of Two besieged Cities in Ukraine are being delayed amid reports that Russia is violating a temporary ceasefire city is surrounded by Russian troops and there is no way out even for any humanitarian help the situation is really dire in marup a corridor 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 this is the only radio signal you can catch in Mario 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 the connection to see what's happening to the city [Music] [Music] March 4th a mall near the hospital was destroyed spee fore for speee as we search for a connection we go neighborhood to neighborhood houses we saw standing days ago are destroyed [Music] foreign [Music] for Fore fore [Music] follow the smoke houses hit by shells burn a humanitarian Corridor was open on March 5th Vehicles fled the city only to be blocked by Russian forces then the road was closed for Red Cross police Ukrainian soldiers try to help and calm people down for the more people realize that they are trapped the more desperate they [Music] grow W [Music] on spee [Music] [Music] speech fore [Music] fore foreign [Music] [Music] spee [Music] fore the city changed so much so quickly when we were in the hospital one of the doctors told me me war is like an x-ray all human insights become visible good people become better bad people worse 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 [Music] [Music] for [Music] for Fore fore spee that night as we watch artillery shooting our phones suddenly pick up connection I split the footage into 10c Clips set three phones on the window sill and sent [Music] bombs continued to rain down on the southern Ukrainian city of marup paal which was fully surrounded by Russian troops the Russians say they aren't targeting civilians this is 18month old Krill Medics try to save the boy they cannot March 9th like a disease war is taken 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 it's Ilia the boy who was killed playing soccer somewhere among these black backs lie the other children we filmed foreign spee just [Music] [Music] [Music] another truck arrives by this from the streets [Music] my brain will desperately want to forget all this but the camera will not let it [Music] happen 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 is this is a [Music] we go to the top of the building and see the smoke just a few blocks away it's a hospital [Music] [Music] for for [Music] foree [Music] [Music] for [Music] foree [Music] spee [Music] I try to find out how many dead and wounded there are but in this chaos nobody can answer [Music] fore foreign the name of the police officer speaking to us is Vladimir he wants to make a [Music] statement and then he asks once more Russian troops commit war crimes our family our women's our children need helps Our People needs help from International Society please help Mar Vladimir showed us the only place in the city where we could catch a signal and send the images outside a looted grocery store on BH Avenue [Music] air strikes are happening [Music] constantly Vladimir said the footage from the eternity 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 Maria pole 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 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 now Ukrainian president belir zolinski calling this attack a war crime March [Music] 10th the city is still being bomed and now I can also hear heavy machine guns that means Russians have entered the city Vladimir the officer we met yesterday he's with us [Music] the last functioning Fire Department in the city destroyed by another air [Music] strike [Music] I don't know if he survived we try not to stay long in one place the biggest university in the City was destroyed [Music] too new ons every day [Music] speee for there something doing foreign foree [Music] we drive back to catch a signal at the spot on budhal Nik Avenue it's still the only place where you can get internet it's past curfew so Vladimir accompanies [Applause] us we check the news and speak to editors sorry what hold on hold back hold on hold on hold on hold on this is flying around hold on I can hear him I I I don't think there has been a moment today when there was not not an airplane in the air and uh the fosis is very pessimistic I think they take the Left Bank already I gave them the latest but they are disturbing updates for us okay these women's stories have epitomized the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine and yet even their suffering has been questioned with Russian officials claiming on Twitter and in news programs that they must be actors this maternity hospital had already been seized by the azos Battalion and other radicals all the pregnant women all the nurses all the service Personnel were already expelled from [Music] that this is information terrorism 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 [Applause] 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 W so we tried the surgery Department [Music] [Music] surgeons are overwhelmed and low on [Music] painkillers this piece of SHP now was taken from a patient finally we find one of the doctors who treated the woman on the [Music] stretcher [Music] her name was Arena they said she screamed kill me when they brought her she knew her child was dead the 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 [Music] child [Music] [Music] [Music] fore forign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] spee [Music] fore [Music] foree speee we have to leave but the corridors are filled with people who lost homes [Music] relatives fore speech for foreign spee spee [Music] spee for spe for speech we head to the exit but it's too late soldiers say a sniper just shot an injured a nurse in front of the hospital two soldiers are still trapped the [Music] [Music] fore foreign fore speech speech speech [Music] we hear a low Rumble so we're 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 [Music] [Music] foree [Music] sign there they are coming closer if reinforcements don't arrive the soldiers downstairs will not be able to stop them they'll take over the hospital spe fore foree 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 fish thoughts of past present and future rais 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 asked 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 battery to contact them this morning they broke into the surgery Department to rescue us they said we were already behind the Enemy Lines we are still wearing the scrubs the doctors gave us in case Russians entered the hospital that night we we don't check WR WR 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 what [Music] [Music] the Russians took over the hospital a few hour hours after we escaped they've taken the Left Bank except that of sty steel factory and they're 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 in 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 March 13th Shing of residential areas continues foree [Music] without any information people don't know who to [Music] blame [Music] [Music] [Music] fore 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 taken a risk on March 15th our editor sent us a message yesterday some people were able to leave with a red cross Convoy and there is another one leaving [Music] today we go to the last functioning Hospital in the city the Red Cross Convoy has [Music] left 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 the no long trting spee [Music] speee no fore foreign foreign we need to catch up with a 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 marup he would give it at least some meaning to this [Music] horror Vladimir's car was damaged by shelling but miraculously still runs we are with his family we make it through 100 km of occupied territory and 15 Russian checkpoints cameras and hard drives hidden under seats by Tone we finally catch up with a 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 [Music] too the total number of refugees who have fled Ukraine so far is now nearing 3 million and Russians continue to strangle and starve Mar opal we got some new video this morning of 2,000 cars that officials say managed to make it out of Mari opal through a humanitarian Corridor that Russia did not reneg on devastating images are now emerging from Mar op 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 now we know about the atrocities that have been happening inside Mar opo because of journalists from the Associated Press the only International Porter Shain 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 Mario pool I'm talking about narrow trenches in Mario pole with babies bodies in AP AP journalists have been there seen so many fakes who wins the the information War the one wins the do do you really truly believe this do you truly believe what you're saying for for

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Length: 94min 7sec (5647 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 22 2023