Lindsay Addario

Yeah.

So on the morning of March 6th, it was a Sunday morning, and we understood that hundreds of people were fleeing the area of Bucha and Erpim, which were the suburbs around Kyiv.

And it seemed very tense that morning.

And we approached and immediately took cover behind this sort of cement wall.

And I was photographing civilians kind of streaming across my viewfinder, getting really angry actually, kind of upset that I was watching like children being dragged by their parents and the elderly on people's backs and that civilians were once again paying the price of war.

And so as I was photographing, a mortar round came in.

And it came in and it landed a little bit off in the distance, like, I don't know, a few hundred meters.

And then a second round came in.

And my security advisor said, do you want to leave?

And I said, no.

The Russians know this is a civilian evacuation route.

You know, Putin said that he was not deliberately targeting civilians.

So I think we're OK.

Then, suddenly, another round came in and landed literally about 20 feet from me, and I dove down behind the cement wall.

So immediately, I looked at Andriy, my Ukrainian colleague, Andriy Dubchuk, and we checked each other out to make sure we weren't bleeding.

And then it was very dusty because of, of course, the aftermath of this mortar landing very close to us.

And I immediately assumed that it was soldiers who had been hit.

I don't know why because obviously there were civilians in that position.

But in my head, I sort of like thought it was soldiers.

And I ran across the street and I started trying to process what I was seeing.