‘The Russians were hunting us down’: Journalist’s account of fleeing Mariupol

Associated Press videographer Mstyslav Chernov reads news on his phone three days before the start of the Russian invasion in Volnovakha, Ukraine (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

A team of Associated Press journalists documented the agony of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol from inside the city centre when they learned their names were on a Russian list.

Here, one of them tells his story of their rescue by Ukrainian soldiers as the Russian forces closed in on a hospital treating the wounded.