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Understand the impact of this war. he said today, i witnessed russian troops deliberately targeting civilians fleeing for their lives. at least three members of a family of four were killed in front of me. she was on earlier today, talking about this experience. watch. >> at some point, a mortar round -- rounds started coming in. they started about 200 meters from where we were standing. so i assumed they were intentionally shelling a position of ukrainian soldiers off in the distance. eventually that shelling came closer and closer to the line of civilians that i was photographing, fleeing. a...

That day. clarissa ward had been in that location the day before, talking about hundreds if not thousands of people fleeing the fighting. you went the next day. did you know that there was shelling? was there shelling nearby already when you were there? >> so no. i went that morning. we actually went early that morning, and i thought i was going to a civilian sort of exodus, evacuation from irpin. i had seen all the photographs, i had seen clarissa's reporting. we're quite good friends. so i asked her about the situation on the ground. and she said there was artillery there, but it was not bei...

Morning to try and catch that scene of civilians crossing. right after i arrived i could sense that the mood was different. there was a lot of tension in the air. there were not that many civilians coming across. there was a steady stream. we found a position where there were ukrainian military lined up behind a brick wall, a cement wall, and they were not taking positions but they were there to help civilians across, and help carry children to safety and luggage and what not. we were standing behind this wall and about 15 minutes in a mortar round came at us, but about 200 meters away. i assu...

So i thought, okay, they're targeting a ukrainian mortar position or a position off in the distance. and that's fair enough. but i never -- i just assumed they wouldn't bring those mortars closer to us because it was very clear there were civilians coming. so i stayed behind the wall, and i kept photographing. and then another mortar round came closer. and so i was photographing, and i saw the people sort of dragging their children and dragging the elderly as the rounds got closer and closer. and i was looking through my lens thinking, it's not possible that the rounds are coming closer becaus...