Chernov and Maloletka received the Freedom of Speech Award/Collage Channel 24
Journalist Mstislav Chernov and freelance photojournalist Evgeny Maloletka received the Freedom of Speech Award from Deutsche Welle. The news was announced by Alexander Tkachenko.
Minister of Culture and Information Policy Tkachenko stressed that the world sees the war in Ukraine through their eyes. In addition, the minister shared the relevant photos.
Chernov and Maloletka were awarded during the first day of the Global Media Forum, which takes place in Bonn on June 20-21.
Photo showing the world the war in Ukraine/Photo from Alexander Tkachenko's telegram channel
Peter Limburg, CEO of DW, emphasized that this award celebrates the exceptional courage of Ukrainian journalists in resisting propaganda and fakes. , so this is the truth they show: Russia attacked Ukraine and its civilian population under a fictitious pretext, Limburg said.
On the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chernov and Maloletka arrived in Mariupol.
They stayed there until March 15th. Then the journalists left after the opening of the humanitarian corridor. In Mariupol, Chernov and Maloletka filmed the destruction, shelling of the city and how doctors even rescued people under fire.What the journalists said
Chernov and Maloletka documented the funeral of the first victims. According to journalists, even before March 15, local residents began to bury in the yards. At the same time, it was not massive.
There was no access to the cemetery. The youngster told how they dug a moat “about 30 meters long and about 3 meters deep.” The dead were taken there from the hospital.
“We very often got to the death of children, it's hard to forget. All the children who were brought to the hospital and whom we filmed – they all died. These are the children who had We are on the footage – both 15-year-old and three-month-old babies, “the message says.
The youngster noted that even before March 15, the entire infrastructure in the city was destroyed. Russian invaders fired on hospitals and a fire station.
