"If I had opened the door I would have lost a leg or worse," Claudio Locatelli said. "The car is well flagged as carrying journalists. The attack against us, considering the place and the dynamics, was intentional. The fire came from the riverbank on the other side of the Dnieper, where the Russian army is."
Independence Day swap returns Ukrainian defenders from thousands who are still captive in Russia
These soldiers defended locations that defined Ukraine's resistance.