April 15, 2014, Donetsk Region.

The plot is dedicated to the capture of regional state administrations of various cities of Donetsk Region by russian and pro-russian forces (separatists) of the “donetsk people’s republic”.

In the video: barricades, militants capture state buildings of various cities of Donetsk Region, video fragments; separatists with “St. George ribbons” and weapons guard the entrance to the Sloviansk Regional State Administration, comments, the “DPR” flag; blitz interview with local residents of the cities of Horlivka and Sloviansk; urgent meeting of mayors of the cities of Donetsk Region, press conference; military aircraft over Sloviansk.

Comments: Head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Serhiy Taruta; Mayor of Sloviansk Nelya Shtepa.

Capture of Donetsk Region, April 2014

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. 

15 people killed: shelling of Poltava

Zaporizhzhia, December 10, 2024.

The video shows the Voznesenivskyi district of the city, the street. Maria Prymachenko: live video from the phone, a private clinic destroyed, a coffee shop and cars parked nearby; piles of construction waste on the asphalt; a damaged school, broken windows; services are working at the site of the impact; rescuers are looking for people under the rubble of the destroyed building; people are waiting for at least some information about their relatives; a destroyed office building and a coffee shop. 

Reference: On December 10, 2024, the Russian army once again attacked Zaporizhzhia. The shelling destroyed a private clinic in the city, damaged an educational and extracurricular institution, cafes, and high-rise buildings. A search and rescue operation was underway at the site of the hit, as people were trapped under the rubble. Eleven people died as a result of the shelling. 

Clinic destroyed: shelling in Zaporizhzhia

February 1, 2025, Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro.

The video features an interview with 28-year-old Edward, a volunteer from the UK who was wounded in Pokrovsk and is undergoing treatment. He talks about his condition, his love for Ukraine, his desire to help Ukrainians, his volunteer work, and his injury.

The interview is in English.

Interview with a British volunteer

July 22, 2014, Kyiv.

A plot about a military hospital where soldiers from the ATO zone are being treated. The territory of the hospital, the wounded in wards on hospital beds. Comments: a doctor; wounded soldier Roman; Ukrainian military medic, colonel of the medical service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vitaliy Andronatiy.

Military hospital

On January 15, 2052, Russia launched a missile attack on the Lviv region.  The shelling damaged houses in the village of Sknyliv, Zolochiv district. The house of local resident Yaroslava Sukach is uninhabitable. The woman and her sister were at home during the shelling. 

For reference: the first air alert in the Lviv region was announced at 01:36 on January 15 due to the threat of attack UAVs. At 06:13, the air alert was sounded again, this time because of the threat of missile strikes. 

Two critical infrastructure facilities in Drohobych and Stryi districts were hit, without casualties but with damage. Also, a rocket hit in the village of Sknyliv, Zolochiv district, damaged private houses and outbuildings.

The journalist: Olga Ivashchuk. 

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