THIS is the horrifying moment a Sky News crew came under fire from Russian artillery as they dived to the ground for cover in Ukraine.
Special correspondent Alex Crawford and her team were attempting to cross a bridge being used by civilians desperately trying to flee the northern city of Chernihiv when "a salvo of rockets came raining down".
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Terrifying footage shows the crew diving to the ground amid Russian shelling Credit: Sky News 4
Special correspondent Alex Crawford and her team were trying to cross a bridge from the besieged city of Chernihiv Credit: Sky News
It came just weeks after another Sky crew were shot in a hail of bullets near the capital Kyiv, with reporter Stuart Ramsay and cameraman Richie Mockler both hit.
In the latest incident, chilling footage shows the crew being told to "get down" as they dive to the ground amid screaming as shelling strikes near the bridge over the Desna River.
As a calm Crawford tries to describe the scene, the team quickly scramble back into the vehicle as they are warned of further incoming shelling.
"The shelling is very close," Crawford says while on the ground before they are told to "get out" by a panicked rescue worker.
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Russian troops encircled the area and had already destroyed the main bridge out of the city.
But they decided to target the last crossing point for pedestrians over the river.
Volunteer soldiers and rescue workers had been frantically trying to guide people over the bridge - the main route to Kyiv - when it was suddenly shelled.
Recalling the incident for Sky News, Crawford said: "A stream of vehicles, ambulances and emergency teams were racing over a dusty and boggy farmers' field to get to the crossing.
"The humanitarian convoy taking aid in and hoping to bring civilians out was forced to drive across a huge open space where any vehicle movement was subject to attack.
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"Suddenly, a salvo of rockets came raining down on the area sending everyone crashing to the ground. Then mad panic ensued as dozens of vehicles hastily turned around and tried to weave their way through the trees and back out into the open field.
"The Russians had already hit the pedestrian bridge by now but as the civilians and emergency vehicles accelerated away, the strikes followed them.
"Not content with destroying the one route out of the besieged city, the Russian military wanted to cause as much death and injury to those trying to run away too."
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Chernihiv has been blockaded and pounded from afar by Russian troops for weeks as it's residents fear the besieged city could "become the next Mariupol".
More than half of the Chernihiv's 280,000 inhabitants have fled, according to mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko, as Putin's soldiers bomb residential areas in the city, which is just 91 miles from Kyiv.
On Wednesday, Russian bombs destroyed Chernihiv's main bridge over the Desna River on the road leading to Kyiv.
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And on Friday, artillery shells rendered the remaining pedestrian bridge impassable - cutting off the last possible route for people to get out or for food and medical supplies to get in.
Alex Crawford's ordeal came days after Russian reporter Oksana Baulina became the fourth journalist to die in the bloodbath in Ukraine.
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Smoke rises out of an apartments building damaged by shelling in Chernihiv Credit: AP