November 14, 2024, Kryvyi Rih. Farewell to 32-year-old Olena Kulyk and her 3 children: 10-year-old Kyrylo, 2-year-old Demyd, and two-month-old Ulyana. Only Olena's husband and the children's father, 33-year-old Maksym Kulyk, survived the attack. He was in another room at the time of the attack.

In the video: Salvation Church, burial of the Kulyk family, choir, wreaths, people, speech by Konstantin Kulyk's father, photos of the dead, mourning procession through the city, burial in the cemetery. 

Interviews: local residents Maryna and Olha, Vyacheslav, a football team coach, Serhiy Haidarzh, the father of the family that died as a result of enemy shelling in Odesa. 

Farewell to the Kulyk family

November 11, 2024, Kryvyi Rih. The Russian army hits a five-story building with a ballistic missile, destroying several floors of one entrance. More than 10 people were injured. A 32-year-old woman, a 2-month-old baby, and children aged 2 and 10 were killed - all members of the same family, only the father survived. 

The video shows the destroyed entrance of the high-rise building, rubble, search and rescue operation, working equipment, broken windows of nearby houses, people, police, tents, ambulance. 

Interview: Iryna and Olena, local residents, Yevhen Sytnychenko, head of Kryvyi Rih district administration.

Kryvyi Rih: a russian missile hits a five-story building 

On August 24, 2024, Ukraine conducted an exchange of prisoners of war with the Russian side. 115 Ukrainian soldiers returned home.

The video shows buses with prisoners of war, all the released prisoners standing together, singing the anthem, standing with flags, communicating, hugging, talking to their families on the phone, prisoners of war traveling in a bus, meeting with their loved ones. 

Interviews with prisoners of war, including: Roman, Rodion and Leonid, Vladyslav, Dmytro, Viacheslav, and the wife of a prisoner of war, Anastasia. Journalist Daryna Kolomiets. 

115 soldiers returned from Russian captivity: exchange for Ukraine's Independence Day

Lviv, 2024. 

The video is an interview with Bohdan Haleta, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. On November 16, 2022, he was abducted by Russian security forces in Berdiansk. The man spent almost two years in the colonies. He was tortured and offered cooperation with the FSB. On June 28, 2024, the 59-year-old priest, along with nine other civilians, was returned to Ukraine. 

He talks about life under occupation, imprisonment, staying in the colony in Horlivka and the exchange. 

Bohdan Haleta: UGCC priest on captivity and release

Watching the President's New Year's greeting and a few minutes later receiving new wounded soldiers - this is how New Year's Eve was spent at one of the staging posts in Kharkiv region. During the night, medics treated five wounded soldiers.

In the video: pictures with greetings on the wall, the military watching a movie, setting the table, listening to the President's New Year's greeting, receiving the wounded, and helping the injured.

Interviews: Volodymyr, traumatologist; Yevhen, wounded; Eduard, anesthesiologist. 

Note: A stabilization center is a place where combat medics evacuate the wounded. There they examine the soldiers and stabilize their condition. It is located near the front line and it is there that the injured must be quickly provided with first aid, emergency surgery, and stabilized so they can be transported to a hospital.

New Year's Eve in a stabilization center: Kharkiv region 

December 2024, Chernihiv region, the work of mobile fire groups. 

In the video: night, mobile firing group on duty, machine gun, field, a soldier tracks the movement of shaheds in a thermal imager, practicing on a shahed, collecting shell casings. 

Interviews with soldiers with call signs “Skif” and “Kuzmich” and soldier Maksym. Journalist Daria Yanushkevich. 

Mobile firing groups in Chernihiv region

On December 29, 2019, a large-scale prisoner exchange took place in Donetsk Oblast. This is the first exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and the L/DPR militants in two years. It took place at the Maiorske checkpoint in Donetsk Oblast. As a result of the exchange, 76 people (12 soldiers and 64 civilians) returned to the free territory of Ukraine. In total, Ukraine returned 81 people, five of whom remained in the occupied territory with their families. ORDLO received 124 detainees. 

The released Ukrainians were met by relatives and military personnel. Among those who returned from captivity were, in particular, Radio Liberty journalist Stanislav Aseyev, blogger and teacher Oleh Halasiuk, participant of the battle for Donetsk airport Bohdan Pantiushenko, soldiers Ivan Deev, Oleksandr Korinkov, and Serhiy Glondar.

The exchange process was accompanied by protests against the extradition to militants of five ex-Berkut members accused of shooting on Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity.

In the video: the meeting of the prisoners at the airport, the President's briefing, a video near the Feofaniya hospital, where the Ukrainians who returned home were sent for treatment. 

Prisoner exchange in 2019

A report by military journalist Taras Ibragimov from Kharkiv region about Ukraine's defenders in the Kupiansk direction. November 2024.

Comments: Dmytro Kushnir, call sign “Fanat” - Hero of Ukraine, commander of the sniper unit “23F3” of the “Revenge” brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine; Maksym Vychavka - Chief of Staff of the 4th Border Commandant's Office of the “Revenge” brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine; Hryhoriy Zaika, head of the 4th Border Commandant's Office of the 'Pomsta' Brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine; Adam, an infantryman of the 'Pomsta' Brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine; Balu, commander of the mortar unit of the 4th Border Commandant's Office of the 'Pomsta' Brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

The video shows the town of Kupyansk destroyed by the fighting and the positions of the Ukrainian military. 

Defense of Kupyansk

On September 6, 2024, Yevhenia, Yaryna, Daryna and Emilia Bazylevych said goodbye in Lviv. They died as a result of a Russian missile attack on September 4. Of the entire family, only the husband and father, Yaroslav Bazylevych, survived.

Yevhenia Bazylevych and her three daughters were buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery.

In the video: The Garrison Church of Peter and Paul, a photo of the deceased family, people coming with flowers, a farewell in the church, a procession to the cemetery, Lychakiv Cemetery, the funeral ceremony. Interviews with family friends. 

Farewell to the Bazylevych family

Ukraine, ATO, January 20, 2015.

In the video: servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine, military equipment, National Guard vehicles.

Members of the National Guard

Kharkiv, January 1, 2024.

A story about the shelling of Kharkiv on December 30 and 31, 2023, on the eve of the New Year 2024.

In the video: damaged apartments, houses with broken windows, the city square, the work of public utilities.

Commentary: residents of the damaged apartments Daniil Zakharov and Olena Teslenko, spokesperson for the Kharkiv City Council Yuriy Sydorenko.

Shelling of Kharkiv on New Year's Eve

Donetsk region, December 24, 2023.

In the video, the artillerymen of the 2nd rifle battalion of the 67th separate mechanized brigade sing carols: "New joy has come", "Good evening to you, master."

Comments by chaplain Igor Plokhy, as well as fighters with the call signs "Yatsyk" and "Berest".

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