They went on the AP and then to thousands of news outlets,” Chernov said earlier this year. “Those shots which went out were very important. All told, he estimates only about 40 minutes of that successfully made it out to the world. But poor - and sometimes no - internet connections made it extremely difficult to export anything. He’d filmed some 30 hours of footage over his days in Mariupol. That’s when Chernov decided he wanted to do something bigger. The day after, a theater with hundreds of people sheltering inside was bombed and he knew no one was there to document it. He and his colleagues, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, had been the last journalists there, sending crucial dispatches from a city under a full-scale assault. Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov had just broken out of Mariupol after covering the first 20 days of the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian city and was feeling guilty about leaving.
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