>>> YOU’VE HEARD THE STORIES OF UKRAINIANS FLEEING THEIR COUNTRY
AMID THE ONSLAUGHT OF RUSSIAN
TANKS AND TROOPS. BUT IMAGINE IF YOU ARE A
HELPLESS NEWBORN OR RETIRED
AMERICAN PARATROOPER NOW TRAPPED
WITH A VERY SICK WIFE BEHIND
ENEMY LINES. WHERE DO YOU TURN?
MANY TURNED TO PROJECT DYNAMO
AND A FLORIDA MAN WILLING TO
DODGE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO
GET PEOPLE TO SAFETY. SOME OF THE IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC.
BOMBS BATTERING UKRAINE’S
CAPITAL OF KYIV AND BODY BAGS FILLING UP WITH BOTH UKRAINIAN
SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS.
>> THE CITY IS UNDER ATTACK. >> Reporter: AND WHERE THERE IS
WAR YOU’LL FIND SPECIAL OPERATOR
BRIAN STERN.
>> I’M HERE IN KYIV.
YOU CAN PROBABLY HEAR THE AIR
RAID SIRENS BECAUSE THEY ARE
BOMBING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
CITY.
THEY ARE SHOOTING ON THAT SIDE OF THE CITY.
>> Reporter: HE IS READY 24/7 TO
SHEPHERD AMERICANS AND OTHERS AROUND TANKS AND TERROR AND OUT
OF COMBAT THEATRES.
>> WE DID OUR FIRST EVACUATED, STARTED WITHIN 16 MINUTES OF THE
MISSILES FLYING, LANDING IN
KYIV.
>> Reporter: AND THOSE RESCUES
INCLUDE PRECIOUS CARGO.
>> THEY’RE PUTTING THEM IN A
WARMER OUTFIT.
>> Reporter: THESE TINY BABIES
BRIAN AND HIS TEAM EXTRACTED
FROM THREE SEPARATE UKRAINIAN
HOSPITALS CARRYING THEM OUT IN CLOTH BOXES.
>> ONE HOUR AWAY FROM BABY LENNY
AND SOPHIA BEING TO THE BORDER.
>> Reporter: THIS IS VIDEO OF
THE TEAM RUSHING THE SAME
INFANTS OUT OF UKRAINE TO SAFETY IN POLAND.
>> TRAVELING ALONGSIDE OF THE
ROAD. >> Reporter: I INTERVIEWED BRIAN
FROM A SECRET BUNKER INSIDE
KYIV.
>> WE WERE GETTING HIT WITH
ARTILLERY. IT WAS PROXIMITY.
THE GROUND WAS SHAKING.
THERE ARE VENTILATORS AND
INCUBATORS AND MEDICAL STUFF SO
LEGALLY AND FAITHFULLY RESCUING
PREMATURE BABIES FROM A WAR ZONE
THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT SCARES
OR INTIMIDATES ME ANYMORE.
I GOT GRAY HAIR ON THAT ONE. >> Reporter: THE GUTSY RESCUE OF
THE RETIRED PLATFORMER SERGEANT
PLAT AND HIS WIFE GAVE BRIAN AND HIS CREW A FEW MORE GRAY HAIRS.
>> THERE WERE RUSSIAN TANKS
PARKED ON HIS STREET THE DAY OF
HIS RESCUE THAT WE GOT HIM OUT.
THIS IS SCARY STUFF.
THERE’S RUSSIAN BAD GUYS IN HIS
BACK YARD LITERALLY THE DAY AFTER WE PULLED HIM OUT THEY
FLATTENED HIS HOUSE.
SO ONE DAY LATER HE’D BE DEAD. >> GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY.
MY NAME IS BOB PLATT.
WE’RE JUST BEING EVACUATED.
>> Reporter: BUT SERGEANT PLATT IS ALIVE, SPEAKING JUST HOURS
AFTER PROJECT DYNAMO KEPT HIM
AND HIS WIFE FROM FALLING PREY
TO RUSSIAN TROOPS.
>> YOU WAKE UP TO CRUISE
MISSILES AND MORTARS AND
ARTILLERY AND AK FIRE.
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ENJOYING THEIR
LIVES AND BEING ABLE TO GO TO
BED AT NIGHT WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING CRASHING
DOWN ON TOP OF THE HOUSE.
>> WE REALLY WANT TO THANK PROJECT DYNAMO AND THE PEOPLE
WHO CONTRIBUTED.
>> THAT LIST IS GROWING TWICE AS
FAST AS WE’RE GETTING PEOPLE
OUT. >> Reporter: ANOTHER BRIAN
FORMER MARINE BRIAN FITS GIBBONS
WORKS STATESIDE TRACKING PEOPLE
IN UKRAINE WHO NEED TO BE SAVED FROM THE RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE BY
BRIAN STERN’S EXTRACTION TEAM IN
UKRAINE. HE IS ALSO WITH PARKLAND’S
KINGSMAN NONPROFIT THAT FUNDS
RESCUE OPERATIONS.
ALL OF THESE EX-MILITARY GUIDES
VOLUNTEERS, DOING THIS DEDICATED
AND DANGEROUS WORK. >> IT’S REAL WORLD GOOD VERSUS
EVIL.
I THINK ONCE YOU LIVE THAT, BY
THAT ETHOS, YOU CAN’T STOP LIVING THAT WAY.
>> Reporter: AND THESE RISKY
RESCUES ONLY GET CARRIED OUT WITH COLD, HARD CASH.
>> WE NEED DONATIONS REAL BAD.
WE -- EVERYTHING HERE IS
EXPENSIVE.
SO GAS IS EXPENSIVE.
DIAPERS FOR THE BABIES ARE
EXPENSIVE.
EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY.
EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR GOES TO AN OPERATION.
>> YOU CAN SUPPORT PROJECT
DYNAMO OR KINGSMAN PHILANTHROPIC.
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