one photo i remember early on that you took is i think we can show it. this lady here with, you know, wrap on her head, dry blood on her face. iblg at the time russia called her a crisis actor. when you heard this, alex, what did you think? so, yeah, that literally would have been the first yeah. daylight hours of this occupation. i think i took that at 7 in the morning. me and my colleagues had arrived at a vef jumbled. she was one of many injured. to hear someone spit in the face of someone who s already had their whole life radically altered is offensive.
powerless. what you can do is focus on doing the one positive thing that you re hopefully skilled at doing, and turning that into an art form that communicates the reality for people. and trying to keep your mind on how to best do that is i d say our job. alex, really appreciate all of the incredible work you ve done. you ve been our eyes and our ears along with so many other photo journalists around journalists on the ground. i know you ve been there. you were there for a long time. i m glad you re now out, having a break. appreciate the time and thank you for all of your work. thank you. thank you. now u.s. president joe biden is considering releasing a million barrels of oil per day
this soldier died on the very first day of the war. it s raining. it s drizzling here today. it s almost as if this city is crying as it mourns its war dead. all of these graves are for the fighters of this place who have fallen in combat since this war began. this grave is being dug but the family can t yet bury their son, a soldier fighting in a village 15 kilometers away held by the russians. they haven t yet been able to get his body released. and even boris s heart breaks when he tells me about a father who s just lost his son, his only child, and who asked, what do i have to live for now? christiane amanpour, cnn, brovery, ukraine. so much heart break. our next story is a journalist who spent two months in ukraine. alex set out to document the images he saw every day.
this shows the pain and suffering. each image shows the country and the people utterly devastated by the war. alex joins me from krakow, poland. i know you left poland in the last 24 hours. you ve been there before the war started. give us a sense of what you ve seen through your lens from that february 24th date. yeah. so i think what was the most shocking about this particular conflict, you know, i covered others in iraq and syria, but they had already been ongoing for years and really within the first couple of hours of whatever they re calling it, special military operations, it became really clear civilians were going to pay a high price. we ve seen that.