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. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Throughout history, from Vietnam to the latest conflict in Israel and Gaza, visual images of conflict can offer unparalleled perspectives of the grim brutalities of war.
A gripping new documentary takes us to the first days of the war in Ukraine inside the city of Mariupol, where a team of ukrainian journalists with the Associated Press captured some of the most harrowing and defining images of the first days of war.
From the bombing of a maternity hospital to mass graves and dying children.
The team has produced a new film based on those images called 20 days in Mariupol.
February 24, 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 Mariupol.
We were sure would be one of the main targets, but we could never imagine the scale and that the whole country would be under attack.
One of the journalists who captured those images is ukrainian video journalist and filmmaker Mstislav Chernov.
He's covered many conflicts over his career, including the 2014 ukrainian revolution, the war in the Donbas region of Ukraine, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, syrian civil war, and the 2022 russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ms.
Deslav Chernov and his team have also won several awards for their coverage of Mariupol, including a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for public service.
20 days in Mariupol premieres on PBS Frontline on Tuesday, November 21.