"“If you don’t do anything, you also feel like a criminal,” #Chernov told me. “Like you are helping the killers. You are helping the criminals to continue to do their crimes. And I can’t. After all we lived through, this is not something I can do. I am aware that my efforts are not as productive as I would want them to be. But still, at least, at least do something.”

#AP’s journalism from #Mariupol ‘saved tens of thousands of civilians’

https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/ap-journalism-mariupol-rts-awards-ukraine/

Vasilisa #Stepanenko, Evgeniy #Maloletka, Mstyslav #Chernov are heroes of the journalistic community

A short iv of Vasilisa after receiving the award:
https://youtu.be/g5oeACVnnzE

Along with Mstyslav #Chernov, a video journalist, and Vasilisa #Stepanenko, a video producer, Evgeny #Maloletka arrived in #Mariupol #Ukraine one hour before #Russia 's invasion and stayed on to chronicle the horrors
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/dec/23/evgeny-maloletka-agency-photographer-of-2022-ukraine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other they are absolute legends of the profession and as you will read in the interview very humble too. Evgeny carried on in #Izyum, #Kherson etc

Mstyslav #Chernov and his #AP colleagues, photographer Evgeniy #Maloletka and field producer Vasilisa #Stepanenko, were the last international #reporters to remain in #Mariupol, #Ukraine, as #Russian #troops attacked the city - here is Mstyslav's essay about it, from March

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-edf7240a9d990e7e3e32f82ca351dede?src=longreads

'The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in...'