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they are surrounded by russian forces. she says she has the feeling it s still late february and the world is just watching. it s hard to imagine two months and a day. cnn s clarissa ward in kharkiv for us tonight after a very close encounter with the russian practice of targeting a residential area twice. reportedly, the second time to kill emergency workers who have responded to the first attack, also cnn s kaitlan collins at the white house, in brussels, cnn s nic robertson with the position now to not put sanctions on someone close to vladimir putin and reporting on two mysterious explosions in moldova to the southwest, cnn s phil black. first, clarissa ward s report. reporter: beginning of a 24 hour shift for paramedics, aleksandra and vladimir vensel, they prepare the ambulance for ....
Russian forces are increasingly hitting the same target twice. it s called a double tap, a horrifying strategy to take out rescue workers as they respond. as we see for ourselves. get in, vladimir shouts, faster, faster, faster. we take cover under the starwell. aleksandra is trying to find the wounded person but there s no signal. at that moment, another barrage goes off. we brace for the impact. ....
no comments. no comment, very difficult. reporter: they must be scared. yes. yes. reporter: proud but scared. call us all day, all night. reporter: we saw your mother. she s wore i to the point of hysteria, aleksandra tells us, saying you need to leave, go to some safe place, why are you doing this, i have only one child, stop it. and what do you say? i have to do it, she says, simply. and with that, they go back to cleaning their ambulance. their shift only halfway through. and clarissa joins us now along with kaitlan collins at the white house. clarissa, first of all, i m so glad you and your team are safe. it is remarkable to see what these paramedics are doing every single day. ....
Aleksandra run back in. we find them treating the injured man on the side of the road. the back window has been blown out by the blasts. he has shrapnel injuries and head trauma. once they ve stabilized him, they rush him to the hospital. vladimir asks about his pain. the man has been deafened by the blast. arriving at the hospital, they have done their part. it s up to others now to save them. i have to say i think you guys are like the bravest people i have ever met. back at base, we ask them why they continue to do this work. with all the danger it entails. it s normal. this is our work. of course it s scary, like for everyone, aleksandra says. today you were with us in the hottest place, in the oven, but ....
Colleagues. aleksandra was lost. she was a very courageous young journalist and a friend. i want to ask you how you want people to remember her. she was far more than a friend. she and i lived through a decade of all there was to live there in that decade. she was a person that was full of life. she wanted the world to see the ukrainian that she was building, be that in journalism, in music, the work that she had done with film makers, various organizations that tried to make the world better and ukraine better. russians have killed her, destroyed her chance in the future. she s one of thousands that are doing in this country and dying every day. ....