20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down.
乌克兰马里乌波尔（美联社）——俄罗斯人正在追捕我们。
They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in.
他们有一份名单，其中包括我们的名单，他们正在逼近。
We were the only international journalists left in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and we had been documenting its siege by Russian troops for more than two weeks.
我们是乌克兰城市马里乌波尔仅存的国际记者，两周多来我们一直在记录俄罗斯军队对这座城市的围困。
We were reporting inside the hospital when gunmen began stalking the corridors.
当枪手开始在走廊里跟踪时，我们正在医院内进行报道。
Surgeons gave us white scrubs to wear as camouflage.
外科医生给了我们白色的手术服作为伪装。
Suddenly at dawn, a dozen soldiers burst in: “Where are the journalists, for fuck’s sake?”
黎明时分，十几个士兵突然闯了进来：“天哪，记者在哪儿？”
AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike Haunting photos from Ukraine that earned AP a Pulitzer Prize I looked at their armbands, blue for Ukraine, and tried to calculate the odds that they were Russians in disguise .
美联社证据表明马里乌波尔剧院空袭造成 600 人死亡 来自乌克兰的令人难忘的照片为美联社赢得了普利策奖 我看着他们的臂章，蓝色代表乌克兰，并试图计算他们是乔装的俄罗斯人的可能性。
I stepped forward to identify myself.
我上前表明身份。
“We’re here to get you out,” they said.
“我们是来救你的，”他们说。
The walls of the surgery shook from artillery and machine gun fire outside, and it seemed safer to stay inside .
手术室的墙壁因外面的炮火和机枪射击而摇晃，呆在里面似乎更安全。
But the Ukrainian soldiers were under orders to take us with them.
但乌克兰士兵奉命带我们一起去。
Mstyslav Chernov is a video journalist for The Associated Press.
姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫 (Mstyslav Chernov) 是美联社的视频记者。
This is his account of the siege of Mariupol, as documented with photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and told to correspondent Lori Hinnant.
这是他对马里乌波尔围攻的描述，由摄影师 Evgeniy Maloletka 记录并告诉记者 Lori Hinnant。
Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka helps a paramedic to transport a woman injured during shelling in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
2022 年 3 月 2 日星期三，美联社摄影师 Evgeniy Maloletka 帮助护理人员转运一名在乌克兰东部马里乌波尔炮击中受伤的妇女。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka points at the smoke rising after an airstrike on a maternity hospital, in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.
美联社摄影师 Evgeniy Maloletka 指着乌克兰马里乌波尔一家妇产医院遭受空袭后升起的浓烟，2022 年 3 月 9 日星期三。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
We ran into the street, abandoning the doctors who had sheltered us, the pregnant women who had been shelled and the people who slept in the hallways because they had nowhere else to go.
我们跑到街上，抛弃了为我们提供庇护的医生、遭到炮击的孕妇以及因为无处可去而睡在走廊里的人们。
I felt terrible leaving them all behind.
把他们都抛在身后我感觉很糟糕。
Nine minutes, maybe 10, an eternity through roads and bombed-out apartment buildings.
九分钟，也许十分钟，穿过道路和被炸毁的公寓楼就像永恒。
As shells crashed nearby, we dropped to the ground.
当炮弹落在附近时，我们跌倒在地。
Time was measured from one shell to the next, our bodies tense and breath held.
从一枚炮弹到下一枚炮弹，我们的身体绷紧，屏住呼吸，测量着时间。
Shockwave after shockwave jolted my chest, and my hands went cold.
冲击波震撼着我的胸口，我的手变冷了。
We reached an entryway, and armored cars whisked us to a darkened basement.
我们到达入口处，装甲车将我们带到一个黑暗的地下室。
Only then did we learn from a policeman why the Ukrainians had risked the lives of soldiers to extract us from the hospital.
直到那时我们才从警察那里得知为什么乌克兰人冒着士兵的生命危险把我们从医院救出来。
“If they catch you, they will get you on camera and they will make you say that everything you filmed is a lie,” he said.
“如果他们抓住你，他们会把你放在镜头前，他们会让你说你拍摄的一切都是谎言，”他说。
“All your efforts and everything you have done in Mariupol will be in vain.”
“你在马里乌波尔的所有努力和所做的一切都将是徒劳的。”
The officer, who had once begged us to show the world his dying city , now pleaded with us to go.
这位军官曾经恳求我们向世界展示他垂死的城市，现在恳求我们离开。
He nudged us toward the thousands of battered cars preparing to leave Mariupol.
他把我们推向数千辆准备离开马里乌波尔的破旧汽车。
It was March 15.
那是 3 月 15 日。
We had no idea if we would make it out alive.
我们不知道我们是否能活着出去。
Thousands in a humanitarian convoy escape Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 15, 2022.
2022 年 3 月 15 日，数千人的人道主义车队逃离乌克兰马里乌波尔。
(AP Video/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社视频/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
As a teenager growing up in Ukraine in the city of Kharkiv, just 20 miles from the Russian border, I learned how to handle a gun as part of the school curriculum.
作为一名在乌克兰哈尔科夫市长大的青少年，距离俄罗斯边境仅 20 英里，我在学校课程中学会了如何使用枪支。
It seemed pointless.
这似乎毫无意义。
Ukraine, I reasoned, was surrounded by friends.
我推断，乌克兰周围都是朋友。
I have since covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, trying to show the world the devastation first-hand.
此后，我报道了伊拉克、阿富汗和纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫争议领土的战争，试图向世界展示第一手的破坏情况。
But when the Americans and then the Europeans evacuated their embassy staffs from the city of Kyiv this winter, and when I pored over maps of the Russian troop build-up just across from my hometown, my only thought was, “My poor country.”
但今年冬天，当美国人和欧洲人从基辅市撤离大使馆工作人员时，当我仔细研究家乡对面俄罗斯军队集结的地图时，我唯一的想法是，“我可怜的国家”。
In the first few days of the war, the Russians bombed the enormous Freedom Square in Kharkiv, where I had hung out until my 20s.
战争爆发的最初几天，俄罗斯人轰炸了哈尔科夫巨大的自由广场，我二十多岁时一直在那里闲逛。
I knew Russian forces would see the eastern port city of Mariupol as a strategic prize because of its location on the Sea of Azov.
我知道俄罗斯军队会将东部港口城市马里乌波尔视为战略战利品，因为它位于亚速海。
So on the evening of Feb.
于是二月的晚上
23, I headed there with my long-time colleague Evgeniy Maloletka, a Ukrainian photographer for The Associated Press, in his white Volkswagen van.
2 月 23 日，我和我的长期同事叶夫根尼·马洛莱特卡 (Evgeniy Maloletka) 一起，开着他的白色大众面包车前往那里。叶夫根尼·马洛莱特卡是美联社的一名乌克兰摄影师。
On the way, we started worrying about spare tires, and found online a man nearby willing to sell to us in the middle of the night.
路上，我们开始担心备胎，半夜在网上发现附近有一个人愿意卖给我们。
We explained to him and to a cashier at the all-night grocery store that we were preparing for war.
我们向他和通宵杂货店的收银员解释说，我们正在为战争做准备。
They looked at us like we were crazy.
他们看着我们，就像我们疯了一样。
We pulled into Mariupol at 3:30 a.m.
凌晨 3 点 30 分，我们驶入马里乌波尔。
The war started an hour later.
一小时后，战争开始了。
About a quarter of Mariupol’s 430,000 residents left in those first days, while they still could.
马里乌波尔的 43 万居民中约有四分之一在最初几天就离开了，尽管他们仍然可以离开。
But few people believed a war was coming, and by the time most realized their mistake, it was too late.
但很少有人相信战争即将来临，当大多数人意识到自己的错误时，为时已晚。
One bomb at a time, the Russians cut electricity, water, food supplies and finally, crucially, the cell phone, radio and television towers.
俄罗斯人一次一颗炸弹，切断了电力、水、食品供应，最后，最重要的是，切断了手机、广播和电视塔。
The few other journalists in the city got out before the last connections were gone and a full blockade settled in.
在最后的联系消失和全面封锁之前，城里的其他几名记者已经离开了。
FILE - Associated Press videographer Mstyslav Chernov walks amid smoke rising from an air defense base in the aftermath of a Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Feb.
文件-美联社摄影师姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫（Mstyslav Chernov）在俄罗斯对乌克兰马里乌波尔发动空袭后的防空基地升起的浓烟中行走。
24, 2022.
2022 年 24 日。
Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka, two Ukrainians who documented the horrors of the Russian invasion and siege of Mariupol for The Associated Press, are being honored for their courage with Colby College’s Lovejoy Award.
切尔诺夫和叶夫根尼·马洛莱特卡是两名乌克兰人，他们为美联社记录了俄罗斯入侵和围困马里乌波尔的恐怖事件，他们因勇气而荣获科尔比学院洛夫乔伊奖。
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
（美联社照片/Evgeniy Maloletka，档案）
The absence of information in a blockade accomplishes two goals.
封锁中缺乏信息可以实现两个目标。
Chaos is the first.
混沌是第一。
People don’t know what’s going on, and they panic.
人们不知道发生了什么，他们感到恐慌。
At first I couldn’t understand why Mariupol fell apart so quickly.
起初我不明白为什么马里乌波尔这么快就崩溃了。
Now I know it was because of the lack of communication.
现在我知道这是因为缺乏沟通。
Impunity is the second goal.
有罪不罚是第二个目标。
With no information coming out of a city, no pictures of demolished buildings and dying children, the Russian forces could do whatever they wanted.
由于没有来自城市的信息，没有被拆除的建筑物和垂死儿童的照片，俄罗斯军队可以为所欲为。
If not for us, there would be nothing.
如果没有我们，就什么都没有了。
That’s why we took such risks to be able to send the world what we saw, and that’s what made Russia angry enough to hunt us down.
这就是为什么我们冒着如此大的风险，以便能够向世界发送我们所看到的信息，这也是让俄罗斯愤怒到追捕我们的原因。
I have never, ever felt that breaking the silence was so important.
我从来没有觉得打破沉默如此重要。
Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka takes a photo of the lifeless body of a girl, killed from shelling of a residential area, at the city hospital of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb.
美联社摄影师叶夫根尼·马洛莱特卡 (Evgeniy Maloletka) 在乌克兰东部马里乌波尔市医院拍摄了一名因住宅区炮击而丧生的女孩的尸体。
27, 2022.
2022 年 27 日。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
A doctor shows bodies of children killed by shelling at No. 3 hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
2022 年 3 月 15 日星期二，乌克兰马里乌波尔第三医院，一名医生展示因炮击而丧生的儿童尸体。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) A doctor shows bodies of children killed by shelling at No. 3 hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov）2022 年 3 月 15 日星期二，乌克兰马里乌波尔第三医院，一名医生展示被炮击杀害的儿童尸体。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Medical workers treat a man, wounded by shelling, in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov） 2022 年 3 月 4 日星期五，乌克兰马里乌波尔的一家医院，医务人员在治疗一名因炮击受伤的男子。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) Medical workers treat a man, wounded by shelling, in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov）2022 年 3 月 4 日星期五，乌克兰马里乌波尔一家医院的医务人员正在治疗一名因炮击受伤的男子。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit The deaths came fast.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov） 分享 Facebook 复制链接 复制 打印 电子邮件 X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit 死亡来得很快。
On Feb.
二月。
27, we watched as a doctor tried to save a little girl hit by shrapnel.
27日，我们看到一名医生试图拯救一名被弹片击中的小女孩。
She died.
她死了。
A second child died, then a third.
第二个孩子死了，然后是第三个。
Ambulances stopped picking up the wounded because people couldn’t call them without a signal, and they couldn’t navigate the bombed-out streets.
救护车不再接载伤员，因为人们无法在没有信号的情况下呼叫他们，而且他们无法在被炸毁的街道上行驶。
The doctors pleaded with us to film families bringing in their own dead and wounded, and let us use their dwindling generator power for our cameras.
医生们恳求我们拍摄那些带回自己的死者和伤者的家庭，并让我们使用他们日益减少的发电机电力来拍摄。
No one knows what’s going on in our city, they said.
他们说，没有人知道我们城市正在发生什么。
Shelling hit the hospital and the houses around.
炮击袭击了医院和周围的房屋。
It shattered the windows of our van, blew a hole into its side and punctured a tire.
它打碎了我们货车的车窗，在车侧面炸出一个洞，还刺穿了一个轮胎。
Sometimes we would run out to film a burning house and then run back amid the explosions.
有时我们会跑出去拍摄一座着火的房子，然后在爆炸声中跑回来。
There was still one place in the city to get a steady connection, outside a looted grocery store on Budivel’nykiv Avenue.
城里仍然有一个地方可以提供稳定的连接，那就是布迪维尔尼基夫大道上一家被洗劫一空的杂货店外面。
Once a day, we drove there and crouched beneath the stairs to upload photos and video to the world.
每天一次，我们开车去那里，蹲在楼梯下向世界上传照片和视频。
The stairs wouldn’t have done much to protect us, but it felt safer than being out in the open.
楼梯对保护我们没有多大作用，但感觉比在露天更安全。
FILE - A fire burns at an apartment building after it was hit by the shelling of a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022.
文件 - 2022 年 3 月 11 日，乌克兰马里乌波尔一个住宅区遭到炮击后，一栋公寓楼起火。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov，档案）
The signal vanished by March 3.
3 月 3 日，信号消失。
We tried to send our video from the 7th-floor windows of the hospital.
我们尝试从医院七楼的窗户发送视频。
It was from there that we saw the last shreds of the solid middle-class city of Mariupol come apart.
正是从那里，我们看到了坚固的中产阶级城市马里乌波尔的最后碎片。
The Port City superstore was being looted, and we headed that way through artillery and machine gunfire.
港口城超市遭到抢劫，我们顶着炮火和机关枪向那里走去。
Dozens of people ran and pushed shopping carts loaded with electronics, food, clothes.
数十人跑来推去，推着装满电子产品、食物、衣服的购物车。
A shell exploded on the roof of the store, throwing me to the ground outside.
一枚炮弹在商店的屋顶上爆炸，把我摔倒在外面的地上。
I tensed, awaiting a second hit, and cursed myself a hundred times because my camera wasn’t on to record it.
我紧张起来，等待着第二次袭击，并咒骂自己一百遍，因为我的相机没有打开来记录它。
And there it was, another shell hitting the apartment building next to me with a terrible whoosh.
就在那里，另一枚炮弹击中了我旁边的公寓楼，发出可怕的嗖嗖声。
I shrank behind a corner for cover.
我躲在角落后面寻找掩护。
A teenager passed by rolling an office chair loaded with electronics, boxes tumbling off the sides.
一名青少年推着一把装满电子产品的办公椅路过，盒子从旁边滚落。
“My friends were there and the shell hit 10 meters from us,” he told me.
“我的朋友们在那里，炮弹击中了距离我们 10 米的地方，”他告诉我。
“I have no idea what happened to them.”
“我不知道他们发生了什么事。”
We raced back to the hospital.
我们飞奔回医院。
Within 20 minutes, the injured came in, some of them scooped into shopping carts.
20分钟之内，伤者就进来了，其中一些人被舀进了购物车。
For several days, the only link we had to the outside world was through a satellite phone.
几天来，我们与外界的唯一联系就是通过卫星电话。
And the only spot where that phone worked was out in the open, right next to a shell crater.
该手机唯一能正常工作的地方是在露天，靠近贝壳弹坑的地方。
I would sit down, make myself small and try to catch the connection.
我会坐下来，把自己缩小，试图抓住其中的联系。
Everybody was asking, please tell us when the war will be over.
每个人都在问，请告诉我们战争何时结束。
I had no answer.
我没有答案。
Every single day, there would be a rumor that the Ukrainian army was going to come to break through the siege.
每天都会有乌克兰军队要来突围的传闻。
But no one came.
但没有人来。
People hide in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 12, 2022.
2022 年 3 月 12 日星期六，乌克兰马里乌波尔，人们躲在一个临时防空洞里。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
A woman whose husband was killed in the shelling cries on the floor of a corridor in a hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine Friday, March 11, 2022.
2022 年 3 月 11 日星期五，一名丈夫在炮击中丧生的妇女在乌克兰东部马里乌波尔一家医院走廊的地板上哭泣。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) A woman whose husband was killed in the shelling cries on the floor of a corridor in a hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine Friday, March 11, 2022.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov）2022 年 3 月 11 日星期五，乌克兰东部马里乌波尔一家医院的一名妇女在炮击中丧生，她在走廊的地板上哭泣。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit A woman holds a child in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov） 2022 年 3 月 7 日星期一，乌克兰马里乌波尔，一名妇女抱着一个孩子在一个临时防空洞里。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) A woman holds a child in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov）2022 年 3 月 7 日星期一，乌克兰马里乌波尔，一名妇女抱着一个孩子在一个临时防空洞里。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit People prepare for the night in the improvised bomb shelter in a sports center, in Mariupol, Ukraine, late Sunday, Feb.
（美联社照片/Mstyslav Chernov） 分享 Facebook 复制链接 复制 打印 电子邮件 X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit 2 月 12 日星期日晚，人们在乌克兰马里乌波尔体育中心的临时防空洞里准备过夜。
27, 2022.
2022 年 27 日。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
People prepare for the night in the improvised bomb shelter in a sports center, in Mariupol, Ukraine, late Sunday, Feb.
2月11日星期日晚，人们在乌克兰马里乌波尔体育中心的临时防空洞里准备过夜。
27, 2022.
2022 年 27 日。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
By this time I had witnessed deaths at the hospital, corpses in the streets, dozens of bodies shoved into a mass grave.
此时，我目睹了医院里的死亡、街上的尸体、数十具尸体被推入乱葬坑。
I had seen so much death that I was filming almost without taking it in.
我目睹了如此多的死亡，以至于我在拍摄时几乎没有考虑到它。
On March 9, twin airstrikes shredded the plastic taped over our van’s windows.
3 月 9 日，两次空袭撕碎了我们货车窗户上贴的塑料胶带。
I saw the fireball just a heartbeat before pain pierced my inner ear, my skin, my face.
我一心跳就看到了火球，然后疼痛刺穿了我的内耳、我的皮肤、我的脸。
We watched smoke rise from a maternity hospital.
我们看到一家妇产医院冒出浓烟。
When we arrived, emergency workers were still pulling bloodied pregnant women from the ruins.
当我们到达时，急救人员仍在从废墟中拉出血迹斑斑的孕妇。
Our batteries were almost out of juice, and we had no connection to send the images.
我们的电池几乎没电了，而且我们无法连接来发送图像。
Curfew was minutes away.
距离宵禁只有几分钟的路程。
A police officer overheard us talking about how to get news of the hospital bombing out.
一名警察无意中听到我们谈论如何得知医院爆炸的消息。
“This will change the course of the war,” he said.
“这将改变战争的进程，”他说。
He took us to a power source and an internet connection.
他带我们找到了电源和互联网连接。
We had recorded so many dead people and dead children, an endless line.
我们记录了那么多死去的人和死去的孩子，无穷无尽。
I didn’t understand why he thought still more deaths could change anything.
我不明白为什么他认为更多的死亡可以改变任何事情。
Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, as people cannot bury their dead because of heavy shelling by Russian forces.
2022 年 3 月 9 日星期三，尸体被放入乌克兰马里乌波尔郊区的万人坑中，因为俄罗斯军队的猛烈炮击，人们无法埋葬死者。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
In the dark, we sent the images by lining up three mobile phones with the video file split into three parts to speed the process up.
在黑暗中，我们通过将三部手机排成一排来发送图像，并将视频文件分成三部分以加快处理速度。
It took hours, well beyond curfew.
这花了几个小时，远远超出了宵禁时间。
The shelling continued, but the officers assigned to escort us through the city waited patiently.
炮击仍在继续，但被指派护送我们穿过城市的军官耐心地等待着。
Then our link to the world outside Mariupol was again severed.
然后我们与马里乌波尔以外的世界的联系再次被切断。
We went back to an empty hotel basement with an aquarium now filled with dead goldfish.
我们回到空荡荡的酒店地下室，里面有一个水族馆，里面装满了死金鱼。
In our isolation, we knew nothing about a growing Russian disinformation campaign to discredit our work.
就我们而言，我们对俄罗斯日益严重的抹黑我们工作的虚假信息运动一无所知。
The Russian Embassy in London put out two tweets calling the AP photos fake and claiming a pregnant woman was an actress.
俄罗斯驻伦敦大使馆发布了两条推文，称美联社的照片是假的，并声称一名孕妇是女演员。
The Russian ambassador held up copies of the photos at a U.N.
俄罗斯大使在联合国举着这些照片的副本。
Security Council meeting and repeated lies about the attack on the maternity hospital.
安理会会议并重复了有关妇产医院袭击事件的谎言。
In the meantime, in Mariupol, we were inundated with people asking us for the latest news from the war.
与此同时，在马里乌波尔，人们蜂拥而至，询问我们有关战争的最新消息。
So many people came to me and said, please film me so my family outside the city will know I’m alive.
很多人来找我说，请拍摄我，以便我在城外的家人知道我还活着。
By this time, no Ukrainian radio or TV signal was working in Mariupol.
此时，马里乌波尔没有乌克兰广播或电视信号。
The only radio you could catch broadcast twisted Russian lies — that Ukrainians were holding Mariupol hostage, shooting at buildings, developing chemical weapons.
你能听到的唯一广播电台播放的是扭曲的俄罗斯谎言——乌克兰人扣押马里乌波尔为人质，向建筑物开枪，研制化学武器。
The propaganda was so strong that some people we talked to believed it despite the evidence of their own eyes.
宣传如此强烈，以至于我们交谈过的一些人尽管有亲眼所见的证据，却相信了这一点。
The message was constantly repeated, in Soviet style: Mariupol is surrounded.
这个信息以苏联风格不断重复：马里乌波尔被包围。
Surrender your weapons.
交出你的武器。
On March 11, in a brief call without details, our editor asked if we could find the women who survived the maternity hospital airstrike to prove their existence.
3月11日，在一次没有透露细节的简短电话中，我们的编辑询问我们能否找到在妇产医院空袭中幸存的妇女，以证明她们的存在。
I realized the footage must have been powerful enough to provoke a response from the Russian government.
我意识到这段视频的震撼力一定足以引起俄罗斯政府的反应。
We found them at a hospital on the front line , some with babies and others in labor.
我们在前线的一家医院找到了他们，其中一些怀着婴儿，另一些正在待产。
We also learned that one woman had lost her baby and then her own life.
我们还了解到，一名妇女失去了她的孩子，然后失去了自己的生命。
We went up to the 7th floor to send the video from the tenuous Internet link.
我们上到七楼，通过脆弱的互联网链接发送视频。
From there, I watched as tank after tank rolled up alongside the hospital compound, each marked with the letter Z that had become the Russian emblem for the war.
从那里，我看到一辆又一辆坦克沿着医院大院开过来，每辆坦克上都标有字母Z，这已成为俄罗斯战争的标志。
We were surrounded: Dozens of doctors, hundreds of patients, and us.
我们被包围了：数十名医生、数百名患者，还有我们自己。
The Ukrainian soldiers who had been protecting the hospital had vanished.
一直保护医院的乌克兰士兵失踪了。
And the path to our van, with our food, water and equipment, was covered by a Russian sniper who had already struck a medic venturing outside.
通往我们载着食物、水和设备的货车的道路被一名俄罗斯狙击手挡住，他已经袭击了一名在外面冒险的医务人员。
Hours passed in darkness, as we listened to the explosions outside.
几个小时在黑暗中过去了，我们听到外面的爆炸声。
That’s when the soldiers came to get us, shouting in Ukrainian.
就在那时，士兵们用乌克兰语大喊着来抓我们。
It didn’t feel like a rescue.
感觉不像是救援。
It felt like we were just being moved from one danger to another.
感觉就像我们刚刚从一种危险转移到另一种危险。
By this time, nowhere in Mariupol was safe, and there was no relief.
此时，马里乌波尔已无一处安全，也没有任何缓解。
You could die at any moment.
你随时都可能死去。
I felt amazingly grateful to the soldiers, but also numb.
我对士兵们充满了感激之情，但同时也麻木了。
And ashamed that I was leaving.
并为我的离开感到羞愧。
We crammed into a Hyundai with a family of three and pulled into a 5-kilometer-long traffic jam out of the city.
我们一家三口挤进一辆现代汽车，驶入城外5公里长的交通堵塞。
Around 30,000 people made it out of Mariupol that day — so many that Russian soldiers had no time to look closely into cars with windows covered with flapping bits of plastic.
当天，约有 3 万人从马里乌波尔逃出，人数之多，以至于俄罗斯士兵都没有时间仔细观察车窗上覆盖着飘动的塑料碎片的汽车。
A car damaged by shelling that was used by Associated Press journalists to escape from the Mariupol blockade sits parked in Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022.
2022 年 3 月 17 日星期四，美联社记者用来逃离马里乌波尔封锁的一辆被炮击损坏的汽车停在乌克兰。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
People were nervous.
人们很紧张。
They were fighting, screaming at each other.
他们在打斗，互相尖叫。
Every minute there was an airplane or airstrike.
每分钟都有飞机或空袭。
The ground shook.
地面震动。
We crossed 15 Russian checkpoints.
我们通过了 15 个俄罗斯检查站。
At each, the mother sitting in the front of our car would pray furiously, loud enough for us to hear.
每次，坐在我们车前座的母亲都会激烈地祈祷，声音大到我们都能听到。
As we drove through them — the third, the tenth, the 15th, all manned with soldiers with heavy weapons — my hopes that Mariupol was going to survive were fading.
当我们开车穿过它们时——第三、第十、十五号，都站满了携带重型武器的士兵——我对马里乌波尔能够幸存的希望正在破灭。
I understood that just to reach the city, the Ukrainian army would have to break through so much ground.
我明白，乌克兰军队要想到达这座城市，就必须突破这么多土地。
And it wasn’t going to happen.
但这不会发生。
At sunset, we came to a bridge destroyed by the Ukrainians to stop the Russian advance.
日落时分，我们来到一座被乌克兰人摧毁的桥梁，以阻止俄罗斯人的前进。
A Red Cross convoy of about 20 cars was stuck there already.
大约20辆汽车组成的红十字会车队已经被困在那里。
We all turned off the road together into fields and back lanes.
我们一起离开大路，进入田野和后巷。
The guards at checkpoint No. 15 spoke Russian in the rough accent of the Caucasus.
15号检查站的警卫讲着带有粗略高加索口音的俄语。
They ordered the whole convoy to cut the headlights to conceal the arms and equipment parked on the roadside.
他们命令整个车队切断车头灯，以隐藏停放在路边的武器和装备。
I could barely make out the white Z painted on the vehicles.
我几乎看不清车辆上涂着的白色“Z”。
As we pulled up to the sixteenth checkpoint, we heard voices.
当我们停在第十六个检查站时，我们听到了声音。
Ukrainian voices.
乌克兰的声音。
I felt an overwhelming relief.
我感到如释重负。
The mother in the front of the car burst into tears.
车前的母亲泪流满面。
We were out.
我们出去了。
We were the last journalists in Mariupol.
我们是马里乌波尔最后的记者。
Now there are none.
现在没有了。
We are still flooded by messages from people wanting to learn the fate of loved ones we photographed and filmed.
我们仍然收到大量来自人们的信息，他们想要了解我们拍摄和拍摄的亲人的命运。
They write to us desperately and intimately, as though we are not strangers, as though we can help them.
他们绝望而亲密地给我们写信，就好像我们并不陌生人，就好像我们可以帮助他们一样。
When a Russian airstrike hit a theater where hundreds of people had taken shelter late last week, I could pinpoint exactly where we should go to learn about survivors, to hear firsthand what it was like to be trapped for endless hours beneath piles of rubble.
上周晚些时候，当俄罗斯空袭袭击了数百人避难的剧院时，我可以准确地指出我们应该去哪里了解幸存者，亲耳听到被困在瓦砾堆下数小时的第一手感受。
I know that building and the destroyed homes around it.
我知道那栋建筑和它周围被毁坏的房屋。
I know people who are trapped underneath it.
我认识被困在它下面的人。
And on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities said Russia had bombed an art school with about 400 people in it in Mariupol.
周日，乌克兰当局表示，俄罗斯轰炸了马里乌波尔一所艺术学校，校内约有 400 人。
Seen through partially drawn curtains a house burns after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 12, 2022.
2022 年 3 月 12 日星期六，乌克兰马里乌波尔，透过部分拉上的窗帘，看到一座房屋在炮击后被烧毁。
(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
（美联社照片/姆斯蒂斯拉夫·切尔诺夫）
This account was related by Chernov to Associated Press reporter Lori Hinnant, who wrote from Paris.
切尔诺夫向美联社记者洛里·辛南特（Lori Hinnant）转述了这一说法，后者在巴黎撰稿。
Vasylisa Stepanenko contributed to the report.
瓦西里萨·斯捷潘年科 (Vasylisa Stepanenko) 对该报告做出了贡献。
Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
关注美联社对战争的报道：https://apnews.com/hub/Russia-ukraine