I finally could source a 1080p copy of “20 days in Mariupol”.
… featuring Vladimir, the handler of the (wait for it) -
- Chernov crew.
So lets count special unit badges and appearances of people with the Donezk region police headquarters emblem on their jackets, why not?
Normal police unit guy, and his buff normal police unit friend (you know, the one with a headlamp), telling the journalists were to go to get to the maternity ward (they saw smoke, so they went. First up a skyscraper to film the smokes source of course, then to the maternity hospital).
First Donezk region police headquarters badge:
Beautiful badge, origin 501st Separate Battalion of the Marine Infantry of the Ukrainian Navy:
Unknown badge, origin still to be determinded:
Second unknown badge, origin still to be determined:
Shoulder patch of the patrol police of Mariupol:
Ah, hi, whos that? We know her!
She feels fine.
So does this lad next to her with the normal ukrainian police emblem on his head:
Oh, also the lad with the second “Donezk region, police headquarters” emblem on his shoulder!
Oh look, its the crater!
[CUT]
[Below] Third Donezk region, police headquaters badge at the scene. Its a little hard to see, zoom in if you have to. Those guys are really eager first responders!
Oh look! Its Vladimir! The Chernov Crew handler in Mariupol! Who was on the Maternity ward bombing site!
The guy who will later drive the Chernov Crew out of Mariupol in his Hyundai! The guy that according to two Chernov interviews they met at the scene “by accident!” The guy that the Chernov crew didnt know before then! The guy that probably drove them [on the same day] to where they could find internet! To upload the maternity ward bombing videos!
Look, he has something to say into the camera! On the day of the Maternity Hospital bombing!
[Coincidently also, the Maternity Ward hospital, not exactly in the center of Mariupol. But hey what gives. Vladimir then switches to english, addressing what they need from the international community at large. Vladimir of course only being a random police officer with the Police headquaters, Donezk region badge on his shoulder.]
“Russian troops commit warcrimes. Our Family. Our women, our children, need help. Our people, need help from international society. Please, help Mariupol.”
(He has to search for the word warcrimes during the statement, so it doesnt seem exceptionally staged/prepared - maybe just asked for by the journalists, because he already gave a statement in ukrainian.)
TWO DAYS LATER:
Look its the Vladimir guy again! With the Donezk region police headquaters emblem on his jacket!
In a different hospital! Where, according to Chernov in the initial Al Jazeera Interview in march of 2022 was just “some police officer”, protecting the internet on the seventh floor of the hospital the maternity ward women were evacuated to! Where Chernov and Crew found him by accident! Again!
To then film the intro of the 20 Days in Mariupol documentary there! Isnt that convenient?!
The same guy who later drove Chernov and crew out of Mariupol in his Hyundai!
Through 15 russian checkpoints! To Freedom!
Which Chernov in two interviews misrepresented by saying, that they were pointed “by a police officer, in a cellar to which they were evacuated” towards some cars, that “were about to drive out of the city” where they -at random- found a family with which they escaped. Endangering the family members lives! With their material. Which the police officers never copied. Although it already was a topic of discussion in the UN security council. Which the editor which Chernov was in contact with told Chernov. Through 15 russian checkpoints!
Look, he still has got his Police Headquaters Donezk region badge on!
edit:
Final proclaimed progression of the events, after watching all available sources.
- Journalist are in Mariupol “alone”, although every journalist team in Ukraine by that point needs to be accredited by the Ukrainian Patrol Police, see click.
- Journalists see smoke
- Journalists go up a multi floor building to film the source of the smoke, see - its a hospital.
- Journalists go there.
- Journalists first meet Vladimir (their police handler in Mariupol, also the most prominent person with a Donezk police headquaters badge on his jacket) there “by accident”. Vladimir overhears them talking -
Our batteries were almost out of juice, and we had no connection to send the images. Curfew was minutes away. A police officer overheard us talking about how to get news of the hospital bombing out.
“This will change the course of the war,” he said. He took us to a power source and an internet connection.
src: click
- Vladimir makes a statement “what this was, and what we need from the international community now” into the camera.
- Vladimir takes the Journalists to “the only spot in Mariupol where there is still internet:
“This will change the course of the war,” he said. He took us to a power source and an internet connection.
src: click
- Journalists leave Vladimir, whom they met by accident:
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. It took hours, well beyond curfew. The shelling continued, but the officers assigned to escort us through the city waited patiently.
Then our link to the world outside Mariupol was again severed.
We went back to an empty hotel basement with an aquarium now filled with dead goldfish. In our isolation, we knew nothing about a growing Russian disinformation campaign to discredit our work.
src: click Notice also that by then they “had officers assigned to them”.
- On the next day they meet Vladimir again and film the last fire brigade station bombed by russians in Mariupol. Then they return to the only spot in Mariupol with internet AGAIN, to upload the footage. There in the movie the line “its post the curfew, so Vladimir had to come with us” is mentioned (see Documentary (20 Days in Mariupol)).
- On the next day they meet Vladimir again, who now is only with them, because now the hospital they want to go to on this day, to catch up with and film the women from the maternity ward again - is in “the red zone”, so Vladimir [their random acquaintance/their handler in maripol] has to come. (see Documentary (20 Days in Mariupol))
On March 11, in a brief call without details, our editor asked if we could find the women who survived the maternity hospital [attack] to prove their existence. I realised the footage must have been powerful enough to provoke a response from the Russian government.
We found them at a hospital on the front line, some with babies and others in labour. We also learned that one woman had lost her baby and then her own life.
src: click
There in that hospital, they try to find the maternity ward - but there is no maternity ward. They find some of the women having been transfered from the original maternity ward, and a doctor who can confirm the death of the women (and her child) they filmed being transported on the stretcher, two days before.
They try to leave, with their escort asking for a way out, also having a Police Headquarters of Donezk emblem on his jacket - probably Vladimir:
But they cant leave, because in front of the hospital there is a sniper that had been seen, and there is an ongoing firefight, while people are wheeled into the hospital on stretchers, by military personal.
Then they hear a rumble. Tanks?
So now they go to the 7th floor of that hospital, to their “observation point” (see: Documentary (20 Days in Mariupol)) OR - AGAIN “to send the video” (see Al Jazeera Interview from March 2022), from a different spot, other than the only spot, where they have a internet connection in Mariupol (the spot Vladimir showed them before, which wasnt in that hospital), where they all of a sudden have internet again, and all of a sudden are with Vladimir again -- going by this Al Jazeera interview:
We found them at a hospital on the front line, some with babies and others in labour. We also learned that one woman had lost her baby and then her own life.
We went up to the seventh floor to send the video from the tenuous internet link. 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.
src: click
Pick one of the narratives, whichever you like best, really…
Or pick the one from the documentary, because in the documentary, there is a voice over line “we need to send the footage, there is no connection there, and we cant get to our car”.
Well too bad for the 10 newsoutlets that pushed the actual interview with Chernov that stated otherwise (went to the 7th floor to send the video using the internet in the hospital), in march of 2022.
But that was before the movie released at Sundance, in November of 2023, of course.
To then, on the seventh floor - film the intro of 20 days of Mariupol.
Its tanks!
Then there is a timecut in the documentary - where an insert is placed about nightmarish feverdreams of the past.
At just the moment where in the initial Al Jazeera interview Vladimir vanishes for a while…
The Ukrainian soldiers who had been protecting the hospital had vanished. 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.
src: click
To see the vanishing soldiers, look at the screenshot before, where you see three soldiers.
The paragraph above also misrepresents that timeline wise, because when they heard about the sniper, right before they tried to exit, Vladimir was still with them, and so were ukrainian soldiers (see previous screen capture), and Vladimir was still with them later, when they first went to the 7th floor - but no biggy. Vladimir vanished later that night.
Or actually - in the documentary, Vladimir didnt vanish. Because in the documentary - Vladimir used the last of his radios battery, to contact a special military task force, which rescued them from the hospital.
Voice over line at 1:18:00 into the documentary. (see: Documentary (20 Days in Mariupol))
Which is interesting, because…
In another Chernov interview - they were in the area, because they were already going through the battlefield, also…
Has Vladimir called the 12 people taskforce to the hospital?
Well, who can say exactly… Not Chernov.
src: click , well - they already were going through the battlefield and took us out. Is how this sentence ends.
Again, pick any narrative you like…
Because in the Documentary they - voice over line again, said “we were already behind enemy lines” when they entered the hospital -- with a hearty:
Suddenly at dawn, a dozen soldiers burst in, “Where are the journalists, for f***’s sake?”
I looked at their armbands, blue for Ukraine, and tried to calculate the odds that they were Russians in disguise. I stepped forward to identify myself. “We’re here to get you out,” they said.
The walls of the surgery shook from artillery and machine-gun fire outside, and it seemed safer to stay inside. But the Ukrainian soldiers were under orders to take us with them.
src: click
Because in the Al Jazeera Interview Vladimir by then had vanished, and Chernov - in a moment of practical heroicism had to identify himself, which is why in the video interview linked above the interviewer asked him (before November 2023), who had sent the rescue team.
So pick any narrative you like, really.
Because in the Al Jazeera Interview, the rescue team also HAD THE ORDER to take them with them:
I looked at their armbands, blue for Ukraine, and tried to calculate the odds that they were Russians in disguise. I stepped forward to identify myself. “We’re here to get you out,” they said.
The walls of the surgery shook from artillery and machine-gun fire outside, and it seemed safer to stay inside. But the Ukrainian soldiers were under orders to take us with them.
src: click
So with Vladimir at his side and also vanished, the rescue team that was already in the area, burst into the hospital with a “where the fuck are the journalists”, because they had the order to take them with them, because Vladimir who was with the journalists had radioed them with the last of the battery in his radio and also stood right beside the journalists.
Again, you pick any narrative you like.
In the documentary there is a timecut (remember?) so we see none of it. After the timecut there is 5 minute of shaky cam footage of the extraction though, so thats a plus. Which ends when they reach a van.
Then again helicopter/drone shots with poetic voice over. “The city is slowly dying, like a human being”.
Then in the documentary they were driven “to an area still under ukrainian control”, which in the Al Jazeera interview was a darkened basement, and in the other video interview linked above an area in the city center.
Then the voice over simply cuts to -- “then for days we tried to find a way to get out of the city” -- while in the Al Jazeera interview they meet another police officer! (Police officer not a military guy from their rescue unit, important for later.)
Very likely Vladimir, because its the policeman that had said to them before “show the world my dying city”, but also very likely not Vladimir, in the Al Jazeera Interview its just “a police officer” they met in the basement, because -
We reached an entryway, and armoured cars whisked us to a darkened basement. Only then did we learn from a policeman why the Ukrainians had risked the lives of soldiers to extract us from the hospital.
“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. “All your efforts and everything you have done in Mariupol will be in vain.”
The officer, who had once begged us to show the world his dying city, now pleaded with us to go. He nudged us toward the thousands of battered cars preparing to leave Mariupol.
It was March 15. We had no idea if we would make it out alive.
[…]
It didn’t feel like a rescue. It felt like we were just being moved from one danger to another. By this time, nowhere in Mariupol was safe, and there was no relief. You could die at any moment.
I felt amazingly grateful to the soldiers, but also numb. And ashamed that I was leaving.
We crammed into a Hyundai with a family of three and pulled into a five-kilometre-long (3.1-mile-long) traffic jam out of the city. Approximately 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.
- because Vladimir who was with them all night, according to the documentary, apparently didnt tell them, why he had radioed in a rescue team before. Which took them in the morning, with orders to take “the Journalists”, but with Vladimir (Police headquarters Donezk region) still beside them, although he also had vanished (see Al Jazeera interview).
With the last of his radios battery.
Pick any narrative you want.
Then in the documentary, Vladimir still “insisted” that they should leave Mariupol entirely.
But they go to the last functioning hospital in the city first, on yet another day, and film some more footage of people in a hospital.
And a doctor unwrapping a dead baby in the hospitals basement.
With Vladimir of course -
- who is STILL with them allthough in the initial Al Jazeera Interview, they last spoke to him in the basement they were evacuated to by the special military task force:
We reached an entryway, and armoured cars whisked us to a darkened basement. Only then did we learn from a policeman why the Ukrainians had risked the lives of soldiers to extract us from the hospital.
“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. “All your efforts and everything you have done in Mariupol will be in vain.”
The officer, who had once begged us to show the world his dying city, now pleaded with us to go. He nudged us toward the thousands of battered cars preparing to leave Mariupol.
It was March 15. We had no idea if we would make it out alive.
src: click
They learned that from a policeman, not a soldier, mind you.
Then they “need to leave” (according to the voice over).
“We need to catch up with a convoy. Vladimir says, he can try to take us with his car. I tell him, that its dangerous, but he wants to help to get us and our materials out. And he still hopes, that if the world saw everything that happened in Mariupol, it would at least give some meaning to this horror.”
Then footage of them leaving the city through 15 russian checkpoints in Vladimirs Hyundai, cameras and harddrives hidden under seats.
Then there is another voiceover in the documentary:
“Yesterday I told one of the officers who extracted us from the hospital - “Thank you for saving us.” He said: “Thank you for telling the story of this city.”
Which is kind of strange, because -- again, in the Al Jazeera interview:
“We reached an entryway, and armoured cars whisked us to a darkened basement. Only then did we learn from a policeman why the Ukrainians had risked the lives of soldiers to extract us from the hospital.
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. “All your efforts and everything you have done in Mariupol will be in vain.”
The officer, who had once begged us to show the world his dying city, now pleaded with us to go. He nudged us toward the thousands of battered cars preparing to leave Mariupol.
That was a police officer. Not a special military task force officer. A police officer, they seemed to know from before (“who had once begged us to show the world his dying city”), and the following points in the CBS Frontline Documentary are ALL attributed to Vladimir exclusively, again, all via voice over:
1. “They will get you on camera and they will make you say that everything you filmed is a lie” said Vladimir
2. “All your efforts and everything you have done in Mariupol will be in vain.” … you have to leave the city, said Vladimir.
3. “He nudged us toward the thousands of battered cars preparing to leave Mariupol.” Vladimir did. In the documentary. More than once.
Oh well, you pick any narrative you like.
Which all is so great to begin with, because in this other interview, the Chernov crew is also driven around Mariupol “by the patrol police”, and also driven to the “patrol police headquarters” (which the Documentary never shows):
src: click
Which only becomes exceptionally great, once you know, that the patrol police is the section of ukrainian police that holds classical concerts in their headquaters around christmas, to which they invite journalists to, and also the institution that you need to be accredited by, to film in the Ukraine at all. Starting two days after the beginning of the invasion.
See:
So in essence, it really is so very great, that they found their Vladimir at the maternity hospital by accident.
Liebe Grüße an das VERFICKTE ARSCHLOCH VON PSYCHOTHERAPEUTEN, der mich bei einem “Entlastungstermin” mit “jetzt hör ich mir das schon seit einer Stunde an, hören sie mit dem Blödsinn auf” und “wie wärs mit einer Kur” aus der Betreuung getreten hat, mich dann an die Psychiaterin neben an verwiesen hat, wo ich dann eine Stunde später so ausgezuckt bin, dass sie mir die WEGA nach Hause geschickt hat, die mir dann die Tür aufgetreten hat, weil ich mich von ihr mit dem Spruch, “ich schließ mich jetzt zu Hause ein, und die erste Person die mir die Tür eintritt ***** ich ab” aus der Stunde verabschiedet habe. Kleiner Tipp, bis heute keine psychiatrische Diagnose (also keine psychische Krankheit außer einer mittleren Depression diagnostiziert) - diese Gesellschaft ist das absolut grotesk und abartigst Allerletzte.
Liebe Grüße auch an Armin Wolf, der beim Interview des Profils mit dem Russischen Botschafter per Twitter alle Kollegen angeschrien hat, dass “die Behauptung das Attentat auf eine Klinik sei gestaged gewesen” die tiefste Propaganda gewesen wäre, die Armin Wolf in seinem bisherigen Leben gesehen habe.
Liebe Grüße an die Kollegen vom Profil, die darauf hin nicht nur den russischen Botschafter in Wien diskreditiert haben, sondern verlautbart haben, diese Äußerung des Botschafters, die offensichtlich Propaganda wäre - sei der Grund dafür, dass man in den österreichischen Medien, seit exakt diesem Zeitpunkt die russische Perspektive vollkommen raushalten müsse -- denn selbst der russische Botschafter in Österreich verbreite öffentlich nur schwarze Propaganda.
Achja, und liebe Grüße an alle meine zukünftigen Arbeitgeber, ich bin nach einer Einsicht aller Quellen auf der Seite des russischen Botschafters in Österreich. Der russische Botschafter hatte Recht. Das war gestaged.
Und Chernov lügt in seinen Interviews. Nachweislich. Und bekommt dafür Auszeichnungen im EU Parlament. Während die Victor Pinchuk Foundation und das Pinchuk Art Center Webseiten (russianwarcrimeshouse.org) registriert und betreibt auf denen Photoausstellungen der Chernov Crew beworben werden:
Und die DREI Begegnungen Chernovs mit Vladimir seinem Handler vom Polizehauptquartier Donezk Region waren kein Zufall. Also - nicht drei mal (Geburtsklinik Mariupol, anderes Krankenhaus (beim Internet bewachen) in Mariupol) Zufall. An zwei (nein, drei) verschieden Orten. (Nach dem ersten Treffen haben sich die Journalisten ja von den Polizisten den sie dort getroffen haben, und sie zufällig über das Video reden hat hören ja noch verabschiedet - weil er war ja nur eine Zufallsbegegnung…”) Und dann noch im Hyundai der sie aus der Stadt gefahren hat (siehe Interview Chernovs beim Sundance Film Festival), an drei verschiedenen Tagen. Was Chernov zuerst in allen Interviews verschwiegen und aktiv missrepräsentiert hat.
Und jetzt sterbt ihr fucking Schweine.
Der österreichische Journalismus ist das abgrundtief Allerletzte.
Liebe Grüße auch an die Stiftung Concordia.
Diese Gesellschaft ist das absolut grotesk und abartigst Allerletzte.
Das ist das Letzte was ich in diesem Blog jemals schreibe - and thanks for all the fish.
