May 26, 2014, Donetsk.

A plot about the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation and the first military clash with russian militants at the Donetsk airport. The airport building, the OSCE, the fighting, the dead man near the railway station.

Comments: head of the press service of the Donetsk International Airport Dmitry Kosinov; press officer of the anti-terrorist operation Alexey Dmitrashkovsky. 

The first battle for Donetsk airport

Kyiv, April 24-25, 2025. The consequences of the enemy's combined attack on the capital of Ukraine.

In the video: night, Svyatoshynskyi district, ambulances, medics providing assistance, search and rescue operation, destroyed houses, damaged cars, morning, rescuers clearing the rubble, local residents near the house, evening, rubble removal continues, aid station with food and tea, people bringing flowers and toys to the site of the hit.

Reference: On April 24, at night, Russians attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones. Destruction was recorded in five districts of the capital. The largest was in Sviatoshynskyi district. In the evening, rescuers pulled the bodies of four dead people, including a 17-year-old teenager, from the rubble of a house. Search and rescue operations in Sviatoshynskyi district were completed the next morning. People brought flowers and toys in memory of the victims.

On April 28, it became known that the death toll had risen to 13 people. A 45-year-old man died in the hospital from burns as a result of the Russian strike. 90 people were injured, including 12 children under the age of 18. 106 buildings were damaged, including 84 residential buildings.

Russia's combined attack on Kyiv on April 24, 2025

Kryvyi Rih, March 6, 2025. The aftermath of a rocket attack on a hotel in the city. 

In the video: destroyed hotel and restaurant, British volunteer Karol Sviatskyi, damaged houses, photo of a child, dog handlers and rescuers, cleaning up the aftermath, search and rescue operation, damaged houses, room with broken windows, people covering the window with film, hotel room, broken cars, doctors providing assistance. 

Interview: Larysa Borysenko, founder of the Pavlohrad dog search and rescue unit Antares; Yevhen Sytnychenko, head of the Kryvyi Rih district administration; local residents Stanislav, Olena, Andriy and Valentyna. 

Reference: On the evening of March 5, Russian troops fired a missile at a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, causing a fire. The attack killed four people and injured 32. Also damaged were 14 apartment buildings, a post office, almost two dozen cars, a cultural institution and 12 shops. 

Rocket attack on a hotel in Kryvyi Rih: there are dead

Sumy, March 24, 2025. The consequences of the shelling of the city. 

In the video: apartment buildings, emergency medical vehicles, wounded residents, doctors providing assistance, damaged houses, broken windows, doors, balcony frames, a fire in an apartment, smoke, fire and rescue vehicles extinguishing a fire in an apartment, rescuers carrying and taking the wounded out of the house, employees of the Red Cross Society's rapid response team. 

Note: On the afternoon of March 24, an explosion was heard in Sumy. As a result of the Russian strike, a fire broke out in a high-rise building. Windows in neighboring buildings were also damaged.
Ninety-four people sought medical assistance, including 71 adults and 23 children, and as of the morning of March 25, 101 injured people were known to have been injured. 

Twenty-six buildings of various purposes and forms of ownership were damaged, including three schools, a kindergarten, a vocational school, an interschool training and production facility, a hospital, 16 residential buildings, a restaurant and entertainment complex, a service station, and an administrative building of a company. In total, more than 3,000 windows were smashed and roofs in eight apartment buildings and four private houses were damaged. The roofs of four apartment buildings need major repairs. Seven buildings remain without water and gas supply.

Schools and residential buildings: Sumy after the shelling

February 1, 2017, Kyiv.

The plot is about the farewell to the Ukrainian military of the 72nd Brigade, who died near Avdiivka during the ATO. Independence Square, the military are carrying coffins with the dead, people are kneeling and crying, shouting “Heroes do not die!”, the list of the dead (Volodymyr Kryzhansky, Volodymyr Balchenko, Dmytro Overchenko, Yaroslav Pavlyuk, Oleh Burets, Vitaliy Shamrai and the youngest — Andriy Kyzylo), farewell and laying flowers to the coffins.

Comments: Oleksiy Myronov, deputy commander for personnel of the 3rd battalion of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade; Bohdana Marchenko, a soldier and resident of Bila Tserkva; Olena Shevtsova, a volunteer.

Farewell to those killed near Avdiivka

April 5, 2025. Kryvyi Rih. The aftermath of an attack with an Iskander cluster munition on a residential area and a playground on April 4. 

The video shows damaged houses, broken windows, a playground, residents bringing flowers for toys, utility workers cleaning up, a destroyed private house, broken windows in an apartment, cut walls, damaged furniture, glass, people lighting lamps at the site of the children's deaths, a woman crying and hugging children.

Interviews: local residents - Taisiia, Hanna, Mykola, Olha, Maria; doctor Serhiy; Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city's Defense Council. 

Reference: On April 4, 2025, an explosion occurred in Kryvyi Rih at about 18:50. Russian troops attacked the center of a residential neighborhood with an Iskander cluster. The attack damaged nearly two dozen apartment buildings, six educational institutions, a restaurant, and more than 30 vehicles.

Nineteen people were killed, including nine children. More than 70 residents were injured.

A rocket into a residential neighborhood: Kryvyi Rih after a rocket attack

June 17, 2014.

A plot about the work of the humanitarian corridor from the ATO zone. Kharkiv zoo, IDPs from Rubizhne, Ukrainian checkpoint on the border of Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, a sign near the Bilbasivka road, Karachun mountain, military at the checkpoint checking vehicles. Comments: IDP Oksana Sorochynska; resident of Sloviansk Yuriy; Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiryak.

Humanitarian corridor from the ATO zone

Kharkiv, April 3 and 4, 2025. The aftermath of the attack by russian attack drones on residential buildings in the western part of the city.

The video shows the night, emergency search and rescue operations, the aftermath of the attack on residential buildings, medics helping the wounded, rescuers extinguishing a fire and clearing the rubble, destroyed buildings, burnt-out cars.

Interviews: Larysa Lozova, Anastasia, Valentyna, Vadym Ryabukha, Tetiana Ryabukha, Viacheslav Rudoi, Lyubov Mykhailivna - local residents; Nikita Halka - correspondent; Tetiana Tsybulnyk - head of the administration of Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv; Yevhen Vasylenko - spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of Kharkiv region. 

Reference: Russia hit residential buildings in the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv on the evening of April 3, 2025. Rescue operations at the site were completed the next afternoon. No casualties were found under the rubble. In total, this russian strike claimed the lives of five people, 34 were injured, including one rescuer. 

Strike on Kharkiv by the “Shahed” on April 3, 2025

August 11, 2014, Kyiv.

A plot about the visit of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk to the military medical clinical center. Wounded ATO participants on the territory of the hospital, on hospital beds, Yatsenyuk talks to the military and their relatives, presents watches.

Comments: the soldier's mother Nina Rudenko; the head of the Military Medical Clinical Center Anatoliy Kazmyrchuk; a fighter of the “Kievan Rus” battalion Mykola Smirnov; Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Military Medical Center

Kherson, December 2024. Emergency medical services under constant shelling in the city: Despite the difficult security situation, on the right bank of Kherson region, emergency medical teams respond to 150-180 calls per day on average, and they take universal field bags, as well as bulletproof vests and helmets.

Interview: Halyna Saldan, director of the Emergency Medical Aid Center; Serhiy Yegorov and Vitaliy Tokarev, paramedics at the emergency medical aid station; Ivan Ohorodnyk, garage manager. 

Under fire around the clock: the work of doctors in Kherson

Donetsk region, stabilization center of the 56th separate motorized infantry brigade of Mariupol, February 2025.  

In the video: a soldier with a leg injury is being helped, medical equipment, including a patient monitor, a thermal blanket, medicines, and stabilization center staff carrying the patient on a stretcher into a car. 

Interview: Oleksandr, a military doctor with the 56th Brigade; Petro “Matador”, a medic with the 56th Brigade, tells us about his call sign, his civilian profession, his duties as a medic, and his dream of becoming a plastic surgeon.

For reference: 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.

Stabilization point of the 56th Brigade

Poltava, February 1, 2025. 

In the video: the destroyed entrance of a high-rise building, rubble removal, rescuers, national police, utility workers, local residents, ambulances, broken windows, bodies of the dead, Poltava gymnasium No. 12 is a temporary reception center for victims, local residents are cleaning and removing rubble from apartments, rescue operations at the site of the destroyed building, utility workers are cleaning the area. 

Interviews: local residents, Kateryna Yamshchykova, Secretary of Poltava City Council, Volodymyr Kohut, acting head of Poltava Regional Military Administration. 

Background: The russian army launched a missile attack on a residential building in Poltava, destroying all five floors of the entrance. A fire broke out at the scene. According to the acting head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Volodymyr Kohut, an X-22 missile was used. A fire broke out at the site. Search and rescue operations lasted until 16:30 on February 2. The shelling killed 14 people, including two children aged 9 and 12. Five people are missing. 17 people were injured, including four children. In total, rescuers managed to save 22 people. One of the injured did not survive. 

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