Posted on Apr 12, 2022
Meet the rescue team extracting people trapped in Kyiv suburbs under siege
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The images of bodies strewn through the streets of Kyiv's suburbs have shocked the world.
They show the terror that Ukrainians have lived through under Russian siege and capture how difficult — if not impossible — it has been to evacuate people from besieged neighborhoods in Ukraine.
The images of bodies strewn through the streets of Kyiv's suburbs have shocked the world.
They show the terror that Ukrainians have lived through under Russian siege and capture how difficult — if not impossible — it has been to evacuate people from besieged neighborhoods in Ukraine.
Meet the rescue team extracting people trapped in Kyiv suburbs under siege
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Bryan Stern knows that struggle well.
The U.S. Army and Navy combat veteran runs a nonprofit group, Project Dynamo, that extracts people from hostile places. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the organization has rescued more than 400 people.
Bryan Stern (left) and Brett Velicovich of Project Dynamo wake up in the morning last month on an overnight train to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to work on evacuations to get people out of danger.
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Bryan Stern (left) and Brett Velicovich of Project Dynamo wake up in the morning last month on an overnight train to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to work on evacuations to get people out of danger.
Stern's evacuation missions started last summer, as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and he watched desperate Afghans cling to the landing gear of planes taking off from Kabul.
"It struck a chord with me because the last time I saw people fall to their deaths was on 9/11, as they were falling on top of me," says Stern, who was a first responder following the al-Qaida terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001."...
..."Bryan Stern knows that struggle well.
The U.S. Army and Navy combat veteran runs a nonprofit group, Project Dynamo, that extracts people from hostile places. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the organization has rescued more than 400 people.
Bryan Stern (left) and Brett Velicovich of Project Dynamo wake up in the morning last month on an overnight train to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to work on evacuations to get people out of danger.
Claire Harbage / NPR
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NPR
Bryan Stern (left) and Brett Velicovich of Project Dynamo wake up in the morning last month on an overnight train to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to work on evacuations to get people out of danger.
Stern's evacuation missions started last summer, as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and he watched desperate Afghans cling to the landing gear of planes taking off from Kabul.
"It struck a chord with me because the last time I saw people fall to their deaths was on 9/11, as they were falling on top of me," says Stern, who was a first responder following the al-Qaida terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001."...
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