
Journalists Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov spent 20 days in Mariupol at the beginning of the siege that would last nearly three months. The south-eastern Ukranian city is now occupied by Russian forces. RFI met the two Ukrainian reporters at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents event where they both won prizes.
The award-winning photojournalist Evgeniy Maloletka met Mstyslav Chernov, a documentary photographer and videographer while they were both reporting in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, in 2014.