Today's story begins with the photo below.
The girl in the photo is a female reporter at the Phoenix TV correspondent station in Moscow.
The filming location was in the southern Russian border city of Rostov, near the Russian-Ukrainian border.
The time at this time is February 27, 2022.
The Russo-Ukrainian War has entered its fourth day.
Unlike the large influx of refugees from eastern Ukraine from south to north into Russia.
The female reporter of Phoenix TV is moving south to Ukraine to participate in the Chinese media's coverage of the Battlefield in Ukraine.
The bouquet of flowers in the female reporter's hand was given to her by a Russian driver, hoping that she would be safe on the battlefield.
When the female reporter of Phoenix SATELLITE TV posted this bouquet of flowers representing peace on her personal social account, all netizens typed the words "pay attention to safety" below.
"Stay safe"!
These four words are also the greatest blessings and expectations of Chinese netizens for Chinese media reporters who are still fighting in the Battlefield of Ukraine.
In fact, as the Russo-Ukrainian war became more and more intense, the security risks of foreign personnel became higher and higher, and there were fewer and fewer foreign media reporters on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Globally renowned media, including the BBC, the Associated Press, and Agence France-Presse, have begun to withdraw war correspondents from the Ukrainian battlefield.
Take Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, where the fighting raged most fiercely:
The number of international media reporters here has been reduced by two-thirds compared to ten days ago.
The international media that still insist on being here today, in addition to the American media such as CNN, the two Chinese media are particularly eye-catching.
One is China Central Television and the other is China Phoenix TV.
I have to admit that the remaining journalists of these two Chinese media are facing great risks here.
On the one hand, the fighting between Russia and Ukraine has completely entered an unprecedented state of intensity, and at any time it may cause harm to media reporters who are covering the battlefield;
On the other hand, the security order in Kiev's urban area has completely lost control, and the various risks faced by Chinese journalists as foreigners on the street are completely difficult to control.
CCTV Kiev Reporter Station is also a female reporter.
In just three days, she experienced the horrors of air raids during multiple live broadcasts.
Once, I was preparing for an interview on the street when suddenly there was a loud explosion nearby, followed by a piercing air defense siren.
The CCTV female reporter and photographer fled to the nearest air raid shelter in a panic.
But at the door, because the door of the bomb shelter is closed, and the air defense sirens are getting more and more harsh, the situation is very critical.
The CCTV female reporter shouted desperately at the walkie-talkie, and it took a few minutes before the iron door was opened.
When the entire thrilling escape process appeared on the domestic TELEVISION screen through the camera, the national audience pinched a handful of sweat for the CCTV female reporter.
What is even more tearful is that when the female reporter took emergency refuge, she still had a toothbrush on her backpack, which showed how difficult the conditions were.
Under the news released by this CCTV female reporter, the sentence that netizens brushed the screen the most was: "Pay attention to safety!" ”
The same horror image appeared on the Kiev special correspondent of Phoenix TV.
The male reporter was originally the chief reporter of Phoenix TV's paris press station.
Before the outbreak of war, he flew directly from Paris to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, then by land into Ukraine and finally to Kiev.
As a result, after reaching Kiev, Russian troops soon crossed the border into Ukraine in a big way, and war broke out.
The reporter of Phoenix TV wore a white helmet and a bulletproof vest printed with the word "TV" every day and risked taking to the streets to report.
As a result, there were many air raids in the report, and there were shots by unknown militants, which was extremely frightening.
During the live broadcast, various armored personnel carriers roared past, and the atmosphere was very tense.
For safety, the helmet was also deliberately made into a white shell as a striking safety logo.
On the night of 26 February, Russian troops launched a full-scale attack on the city of Kiev, engaging the Ukrainian defenders in a fierce battle.
The reporter, who was interviewing on the street, rushed to take refuge in the bomb shelter.
The Phoenix TV reporter experienced a whole night of suffering in the air raid shelter: the outside was full of gunshots and explosions, and there was no stop at all.
The next morning, the exchange of fire was quieter, and the reporter risked his way from the bomb shelter to a wretched street littered with smoke and traces of explosions.
In the live broadcast footage, the sound of machine gun fire in the distance was heard from time to time, which made the audience look frightened and persuade the reporter to pay attention to safety.
These brave Chinese journalists sent back the latest reports on the Russo-Ukrainian war for domestic audiences in the war-torn Ukraine war for the first time, and also showed the strength of the Chinese media on the battlefield with their fearless spirit.
Finally, I hope that these brave battlefield retrogrades will return safely.