AND WHILE THE IMAGES MAY BE
DIFFICULT TO WATCH AND A WARNING
TO OUR VIEWERS AS WELL, ON
MONDAY THE "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
DECIDED TO SHOW THE BRUTAL TOLL
FROM THIS WAR ON THE FRONT PAGE.
A MOTHER AND HER TWO CHILDREN
KILLED BY RUSSIAN MOTORISTS AS
THEY TRIED TO FLEE THE CITY.
JOINING US IS THE PHOTO
JOURNALIST, AWARD-WINNING COMBAT
PHOTOGRAPHER BEHIND THAT CAMERA
LENS, PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING
PHOTOGRAPHER WHO SPENT HER
ENTIRE YEAR DOCUMENTING WAR
ZONES.
IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE
TALKED.
YOUR WORK AGAIN IS EXEMPLARY.
VLADIMIR PUTIN REPEATEDLY DENIES
TARGETING CIVILIANS.
YOUR IMAGES SHOW US THE TRUTH.
>> WELL, I WINT ON SUNDAY
MORNING TO WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD
BE A STEADY STREAM OF CIVILIANS
TRYING TO MAKE THEIR WAY OUT OF
UKRAINE.
WE'D SEEN IMAGES OF THE BROKEN
BRIDGE AND PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE
THEIR WAY ACROSS.
IT WAS A KNOWN CIVILIAN
EVACUATION ROUTE.
I WAS CONFIDENT I WOULD GO AND
PHOTOGRAPH CIVILIANS.
SHORTLY AFTER I GOT THERE, THERE
WAS A SERIES OF MORTAR STRIKES.
THE FIRST ABOUT 200 METERS FROM
WHERE WE WERE.
THEY PROGRESSIVELY GOT CLOSER
AND CLOSER.
ABOUT THREE TO FOUR MINUTES
APART.
I WAS PHOTOGRAPHING PEOPLE
CONTINUED TO STREAM WITH THEIR
KIDS DRAGGING THEIR CHILDREN,
DRAGGING THE ELDERLY.
UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS RUNNING OUT,
GRABBING THEIR PETS, CHILDREN,
EVERYTHING AND THE MORTAR ROUNDS
WERE GETTING CLOCHE AND CLOSER.
I REMEMBER LOOKING THROUGH MY
CAMERA LENS BEING FEWEREROUS KWB
THINKING HOW COULD ANYONE SPRAY
AN AREA WITH MORTARS KNOWN TO BE
WITH CHILDREN AND WOMEN?
AND LOW AND BEHOLD A ROUND
LANDED ABOUT 30 FEET FROM WHERE
WE WERE, IF THAT AND ABOUT THE
SAME DISTANCE TO WHERE THE
FAMILY WAS THAT QUASI-A MOTHER
AND HER TWO DHILDN ARE WERE
KILLED ALONG WITH A FAMILY OR
FRIEND OR SOMEONE FROM THE
CHURCH IN THE AREA USHERING THEM
TO SAFETY.
>> SO, YOU'RE A PHOTOGRAPHER, A
JOURNALIST.
PHOTO JOURNALIST.
YOU'RE A MOTHER.
WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR
HEAD?
HOW DO YOU STAND BACK AND
CONTINUE TO WORK?
>> I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IN THOSE
MOMENTS THEY'RE QUITE CHAOTIC
BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE HAD JUST
NARROWLY SCAPED DEATH AND I WAS
TRYING TO IF FIGURE OUT IF I WAS
WOUNDED BECAUSE I FELT THE SPRAY
OF GRAVEL ALL OVER MY NECK.
IF YOU'VE SEEN INVIDEO, I WAS
QUITE WORKED UP AND I SAID AM I
BLEEDING?
AM I BLEEDING?
HE SAID NO.
I WENT RIGHT TO WORK BUT I STILL
HADN'T SEEN THE FAMILY BECAUSE
IT WAS QUITE DUSTY.
FINALLY, OUR SECURITY ADVISOR
ASKED US TO STAY WHERE WE WERE
AND AS SOON AS HE WAS CALLING
FOR A MEDIC, HE WENT TO CHECK
THE PULSES OF THE FAMILY AND AS
SOON AS I REALIZED WOE WERE ABLE
TO CROSS OVER, I SAW THE FOUR
LIFELESS BODIES, WHAT I THOUGHT
WAS LIFELESS AND I REMEMBER
SEEING THE BODY OF A
NINE-YEAR-OLD AND THINKING I
HAVE A 10-YEAR-OLD SON AND I
JUST -- IN THOSE MOMENTS AND
IT'S HARD TO CONNECT THE DOTS
BECAUSE I THOUGHT OKAY, I HAVE
TO TAKE THIS PICTURE BECAUSE I
KNOW NIS IS A WAR CRIME.
THESE PEOPLE WERE TARGETED
INTENTIONALLY.
I WATCHED IT HAPPEN BUT AT THE
SAME 250I78 MY HEART WAS
BREAKING AND I TRIED TO TAKE A
PHOTO IN A RESPECTFUL WAY FROM
THE BACK AND THEN I WORKED MY
WAY AROUND THE SCENE.
BUT WE WERE STILL UNDER ATTACK.
MORTAR ROUNDS CONTINUED TO COME
IN UNTIL WE WERE OUT OF THE
AREA.
SO, KEY KEPT HAVING TO DIVE FOR
COVER AS WE'RE GOING BACK TO OUR
CAR WITH THE OTHER CIVILIANS.
>> I WAS JUST SEEING IN THE SAN
FRANCISCO CHRONICLE THAT A FIRM
SE RARJ RANKING HAS IDENTIFIED
THE VICTIMS AS THEIR CHIEF
ACCOUNTANT AND HER CHILDREN.
THEY'RE GRIEVING HER LOSS,
ACCORDING TO HER EMPLOYER IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
ARE YOU'VE SEEN SO MUCH.
I KNOW IN LIBYA YOU WERE TAKEN
HOSTAGE ALONG WITH YOUR
COLLEAGUES.
AND THE GREAT ANTHONY WHO WE
LOST LATER IN WAR.
THERE'S SO MANY CONFLICTS THAT
YOU'VE SEEN BUT THE LEVEL OF
ATTACKS.
THIS ONE REMINDS OF ALEPPO AND
RUSSIA JUST DELIBERATELY KILLING
CIVILIANS.
>> I MEAN, A MATERNITY HOSPITAL
WAS JUST BOMBED IN MAUR YOEPAL.
IT IS ASTONISHING HOW ANYONE CAN
BOMB A MATERNITY HOSPITAL WITH
WOMEN IN LABOR, NEWBORNS.
IT'S UNCONSCIONABLE.
IT'S UNBELIEVABLE HOW THERE IS
ANY JUSTIFICATION IN BOMBING A
MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
I FELT THE SAME THAT DAY.
I HAVE TWO KIDS, I WATCHED THEIR
BODIES.
WE HAVE MET WITH THE FATHER --
OR THE HUSBAND OF THIS WUM SDWHN
FATHER OF THE TWO KIDS.
VERY EMOTIONAL.
I CAN'T -- IT'S UNBELIEVABLE
WHAT PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH
RIGHT NOW.
>> LINDSEY, WE'RE WATCHING RIGHT
NOW IS WHILE YOIV ARE BEEN
DESCRIBING THIS, WE JUST GOT
THIS VIDEO FROM THE SCENE IN THE
MARE POLE WITH SURVIVORS BEING
EVACUATED AND THERE'S AN
ENORMOUS LEVEL OF DEVASTATION
THERE.
AND A MOTHER AND CHILD COMING
OUT AND OTHERS FROM WHERE
THEY'VE BEEN SHELTERED.
SO, IT'S JUST DEVASTATING.
I CAN'T DESCRIBE MY ADMIRATION,
THE LEVEL OF MY ADMIRATION FOR
YOU AND THANK YOU AND THANK YOU
FOR WHAT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES
ARE DOING TO SHOW THE WORLD WHAT
IS GOING ON.
OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE FIELD.
I KNOW THE HUMAN TOLL, CAN
IMAGINE AND THANK YOU FOR
EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING.
>> I MEAN IT'S A COLLECTIVE
EFFORT.
THERE ARE A LOT OF US
JOURNALISTS ON THE GROUND AND I