Meet the rescue team extracting people trapped in Kyiv suburbs under siege

Valentina Kuzmenka cries as she says goodbye to her daughter, putting her on a bus with Project Dynamo to get her out of Ukraine.

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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.

Bryan Stern knows that struggle well.