A new documentary about the first days of the Russian invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine is premiering in Canada at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.
A new documentary about the first days of the Russian invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine is premiering in Canada at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto on Saturday., along with two colleagues captured graphic footage of civilian deaths, a maternity hospital bombing, and the beginnings of the war in the eastern Ukraine port city.
“We are Ukrainians and we are journalists. And we just felt that it was our duty to stay and to keep reporting as long as it was possible,” Chernov told CTV’s Your Morning on Friday.The footage Chernov and The Associated Press journalists Vasilisa Stepanenko and Evgeniy Maloletka were able to gather and share reports and video of the invasion, including footage of a pregnant woman stretchered out of a bombed maternity hospital on a stretcher that was seen worldwide.
In Russia, their footage was claimed as propaganda, Chernov told Your Morning, but “as international journalists, we just [had] to keep filming… And we did all of this not because Russia said that we're actors, we did this because it was important to keep showing what was happening to [the Ukrainian] people.”for their reporting in Mariupol.
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