well, let's talk to the panorama correspondent hilary anderson who is responsible for that film. lary, it was a very powerful piece of television, there was no reporter or narration on that film at all. how and why did you decide to structure things that way? well, this was a very carefully thought through and deliberate decision right from the beginning of the project because the whole idea was to tell the story of mariupol and the war inside out, instead of from the outside in. because, every day, we watch coverage of tanks, of reporters talking, narrating with clips of individuals but sort of... looking at the war from the outside. what this film did was to go not just to the people to allow them to tell their story but to go right inside their heads and to tell the story of the war in an experiential way. for that to be completely authentic, we felt, our team felt, that they needed to speak in their own languages and that it would be better not to have any narration and just, lets listen to the voices of the people who lived through the siege of mariupol. as we know, it has be

our correspondent hilary anderson has been speaking to one such family. may find some of her report very upsetting. hillary: hanna, a 25-year-old french teacher from mariupol had it all. just before the war, she fell in love. she got married and had a child. but in a day, hannah's world turned tchaos. mariupol became the epicenter of the war. her husband joined up. >> [speaking foreign language] hilary: hannah moved into a bunker in the steel plant. her husband was based on the others of the steelworks. >> [speaking foreign language] hilary: it became a living hell. russian firepower rain down on the steel plant. hannah's bunker was hit. >> [speaking foreign language] hilary: but many were injured and died here. finally in late april an evacuation was agreed. civilians trapped and hannah with her baby walked out alive. >> [speaking foreign language] hilary: but her husband was still inside. he had been wounded. hannah got a call through to him. >> [speaking foreign language] hilary: when russia won the battle, hundreds of ukrainian soldiers surrendered, a

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