From axios.com by Ivana Saric:

Associated Press videographer Mstyslav Chernov detailed the harrowing steps he and his colleague, AP photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, took to escape from the besieged port city of Mariupol in an essay published on the AP Monday.

Driving the news: Mariupol has been under siege by Russian forces for weeks and has sustained devastating attacks on civilians, with targets including a children’s hospital, local theater, and an art school.

• Conditions in the city have deteriorated, with residents subsisting without electricity, phone service or heating, and casualties being buried in a mass grave.