TELEVISION – While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began 10 days ago, Vladimir Putin’s troops were closing in on Kiev this Saturday, March 5th. Residents, especially the elderly, have tried to flee the Ukrainian capital, as evidenced by CNN journalist Clarissa Ward.
A reporter who covered the Taliban coup in Afghanistan last August found herself at the center of this wave of people fleeing the war. She then commented on the situation on a live CNN on Stage program.
“These people are so tired that they can hardly walk. They have to climb this twisted piece of metal. Many of them are old and in disrepair. It’s terrible,” she described, before coming to the aid of the first person, an elderly man, as you can see in our video at the top of the article. “Let me help you,” she pleads before taking the Kievan’s hand.
Moments later, Clarissa Ward helped the woman carry the few things she could muster before leaving her home. “I’ll just help him carry this bag for a few minutes. Forgive me, John,” she continued.
A few minutes earlier, another disaster scene had taken place in the CNN journalist’s duplex. Clarissa Ward feared her cameraman was filming a body being carried on a sheet in the distance. In fact, he was an elderly man who could not walk and was being carried by soldiers.
“At first, Clarissa Ward thinks that the body is the body of an unfortunate woman who cannot walk and escapes from the ruins of Kyiv on a makeshift stretcher.”
More than 1.3 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, according to the latest UN count, prompting heavy mobilization in border countries, particularly in Poland, where US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken returned on Saturday.
Others are expected to leave the country, especially from Mariupol. In this city on the Sea of Azov, an evacuation scheduled for this Saturday, March 5, had to be postponed “for security reasons” as Russian forces “continue shelling Mariupol and its environs,” the mayor’s office said until noon. .
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