one of the first things that happens when we re there is we get stopped by the police. we get searched. i get patted down. other colleagues have been thrown on the ground. had guns pointed to their heads, because there was that fear of saboteurs everywhere. we spoke to the police and we said, ok, you know, we re journalists now. can we ride along with you at night through the city, just to get a sense of what s going on? and we did. a lot of buildings had been destroyed. hardly anyone on the street, anyone who was on the street was treated with suspicion. you know, ithink in the first night, a cruise missile took out the building opposite our hotel. the whole building shook. and that was how it was in the early days. just attack after attack. constant artillery, constant
one of the first things that happens when we re there is we get stopped by the police. we get searched. i get patted down. other colleagues have been thrown on the ground. had guns pointed to their heads, because there was that fear of saboteurs everywhere. we spoke to the police and we said, look, you know, we re journalists now. can we ride along with you at night through the cityjust to get a sense of what s going on? and we did. but a lot of buildings had been destroyed. hardly anyone on the street, anyone who was on the street was treated with suspicion. you know, ithink in the first night. cruise missile took out the building opposite our hotel. whole building shook. and that was how it was in the early days. just attack after attack. constant artillery, constant fear and a constant sense of, well, i really don t know what s going to happen. i don t know how long ukraine will manage to hold on here.
one of the first things that happens when we re there is we get stopped by the police. we get searched. i get patted down. other colleagues have been thrown on the ground. had guns pointed to their heads, because there was that fear of saboteurs everywhere. we spoke to the police and we said, look, you know, we re journalists now. can we ride along with you at night through the city just to get a sense of what s going on? and we did. but a lot of buildings had been destroyed. hardly anyone on the street, anyone who was on the street was treated with suspicion. you know, ithink in the first night. cruise missile took out the building opposite our hotel. whole building shook. and that was how it was in the early days. just attack after attack. constant artillery, constant fear and a constant sense of, well, i really don t know what s going to happen. i don t know how long ukraine
there was just an abiding sense of fear and terror and an expectation that, at any moment, the city could collapse. one of the first things that happens when we re there is we get stopped by the police. we get searched. i get patted down. other colleagues have been thrown on the ground. had guns pointed to their heads, because there was that fear of saboteurs everywhere. we spoke to the police and we said, look, you know, we re journalists now. can we ride along with you at night through the cityjust to get a sense of what s going on? and we did. but a lot of buildings had been destroyed. hardly anyone on the street, anyone who was on the street was treated with suspicion. you know, ithink in the first night. cruise missile took out the building opposite our hotel.
so, you had to drive and it s driving a long way. and in those early days, there were checkpoints everywhere. people were so jumpy, so suspicious, especially of foreigners. it took us a long time to get to kharkiv. we arrived there and there was a ghost city. there were no people on the streets. there was just an abiding sense of fear and terror and an expectation that, at any moment, the city could collapse. one of the first things that happens when we re there is we get stopped by the police. we get searched. i get patted down. other colleagues have been thrown on the ground. had guns pointed to their heads, because there was that fear of saboteurs everywhere. we spoke to the police and we said, look, you know, we re journalists now. can we ride along with you at night through the cityjust to get a sense of what s going on? and we did. but a lot of buildings had been destroyed. hardly anyone on the street,