Chernov and his colleague Yevgeny Maloletka were working for news agency Associated Press when the Russian army invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022 and advanced on Mariupol, a major port city of some half a million inhabitants. They were the only journalists in the city, recording the advance of the Russians and especially Vladimir Putin’s crimes against humanity – the bombings of residential areas or hospitals, the snipers in the streets – for the international community.
Much of what they played then landed on the news channels and thus has also been burned into the international retina.

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