U.S. combat veteran Bryan Stern runs a nonprofit called Project Dynamo that extracts people from hostile places. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the organization has rescued more than 400 people.
U.S. Army and Navy combat veteran Bryan Stern sorts out logistics on the phone for evacuations in Kyiv, Ukraine, last month. Stern runs a nonprofit organization called Project Dynamo that extracts people from hostile places. 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.
"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.Brett Velicovich, who works with Stern, looks out the train window while he awaits their arrival in Kyiv.
Stern stays behind to focus on his riskiest mission yet — figuring out how to get Bob Platt, a 62-year-old veteran of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, out of a Kyiv suburb where he lives with his Ukrainian wife. Amid reports of Russian soldiers going door to door in the suburbs killing civilians, Stern urges Platt to drive out of the neighborhood. But Russian checkpoints are everywhere, as well as constant artillery fire. Platt is reluctant. He has heard that people who travel alone and without some sort of escort are killed.He makes it within 5 miles of Platt and his wife and suddenly comes under artillery fire. He is forced to abort the rescue."Be ready to leave in 20 minutes," it says.
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