Odessa, December 31, 2025. 

In the video: the building after the arrival of the shahid, burned windows, broken roofs and ceilings, burned apartments, burned balconies, damaged shops, utility workers cleaning up debris; the apartment hit by the shahid: flooded floor, broken and burned windows, a collapsed New Year's tree, a torn-down chandelier, ashes in the rooms, burned beds, furniture, no doors; another damaged high-rise building, broken windows in apartments, destroyed ceilings and roof; Inside the apartment: no windows, crumbling walls; outside the building, people are collecting their belongings, burned cars, destroyed balconies, residents near the building are boarding up doors and covering windows with plastic sheeting. 

Interviews with local residents, part in Russian. 

Reference: On the night of December 31, the Russian army attacked Odessa with strike drones. Two high-rise buildings were hit, and apartments in one of them caught fire. Six people are known to have been injured, including three children aged between seven months and 14 years.

The city has partially lost electricity, water, and heat. 

Shelling of Odessa: December 31, 2025 

3 June 2014. A report about the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border during the anti-terrorist operation. Border post in the east of the country, archival footage of the assault on the Luhansk border detachment, border guards patrolling the border, map of Ukraine's border posts. Comments: Head of the State Border Service of Ukraine Mykola Lytvyn; former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anatoliy Lopata; Director of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovsky.

State of the Ukrainian border, 2014

Ternopil, November 19, 2025. The aftermath of the shelling. 

In the video: Stusa Street 8: consequences of rocket strikes, destroyed building, smoke, rescuers, fire trucks, people, smoke in an industrial area, destroyed high-rise building, rescuers, people waiting, fire trucks, cranes, debris from a building in a schoolyard, people helping rescuers, a priest, people pushing cars, a criminologist with a dog, warming stations, evening, destroyed building, rescuers searching for people under the rubble; 15 Kvitnya Street 31: consequences of rocket strikes, damaged building, rescuers extinguishing a fire, smoke, fire trucks, people, damaged cars, broken windows in buildings, burned-down house, ambulance, burning cars, people clearing debris, smoke over the city, injured residents, police and rescuers at the scene; helping victims at the school. 

Interviews: Vyacheslav Negoda, head of the Ternopil Regional State Administration; Vyacheslav Negoda, head of the Ternopil Regional State Administration; Serhiy Nadal, mayor of Ternopil; Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: people waiting for their relatives; Serhiy Danilin, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service in the Ternopil region; Oksana, a mother waiting for her son Bohdan to be pulled out from under the rubble; Oleksiy Borovskyi, local resident;  Rostyslava Pariy, local resident; Khristina Bilinska, head of the city council administration. 

Reference: On the morning of November 19, Russia attacked Ternopil with drones and missiles. The first explosions were heard around 6:30 a.m. Smoke appeared over one of the city's neighborhoods. Several residential buildings were destroyed as a result of the shelling. On the first day of the search and rescue operation, 26 people were found dead at the site of the Russian strikes. The death toll later rose to 36. 

Shelling of Ternopil: November 19, 2025

1 February 2017, Avdiivka, Donetsk region.

The video shows the aftermath of shelling by Russian militants. A local resident on a broken balcony, broken windows in an apartment building, military personnel, shots of the city.

Наслідки обстрілу в Авдіївці, 1 лютого 2017 рік

1 February 2017, Avdiivka, Donetsk region.

A plot about the state of emergency in the city due to the start of active hostilities. A local resident cries and asks the military not to leave the city, footage of the city, winter, people in tents for warmth, rescue services at work, field kitchens, evacuation buses, the consequences of russian shelling, humanitarian aid. Comments: Head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine Mykola Chechotkin; Head of the Donetsk Regional Military-Civil Administration Pavlo Zhebrivsky.

State of emergency in Avdiivka, 2017

Donetsk region, Kramatorsk, January 19, 2024. Interview of Mykhailo Titov (call sign "Cosmos") — senior sergeant, participant in the defense of Donetsk airport.

On May 26, 2014, the first battle for the Donetsk airport took place between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian militants. As a result, the Russian security forces suffered losses and were forced to retreat. The next attempts to seize the airport lasted from September 2014 to January 2015.

In the video, the soldier talks about the defense of the airport, everyday life, ammunition, food, and the morale of the soldiers and comrades.

"Cyborg" of Donetsk airport: Mykhailo "Kosmos" Titov

Donetsk region, 2025. 

The video features an interview with Andriy Polukhin, a soldier of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Danylo.

He talks about his participation in the defense of Donetsk airport, his duties as an assistant chaplain and combat medic, his call signs, his comrades-in-arms, and the idea of creating a memorial to commemorate the heroic deeds of the DAP defenders.

Memoirs of a soldier about his participation in the defense of Donetsk airport

January 15, 2025, Donetsk region.

Interview with Senior Sergeant of the 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (81st OAeMBr), Oleksandr Pichkar, alias "Chechen". He talks about his motivation for joining the army, participation in the battles for Donetsk Airport (DAP), receiving a concussion, the beginning of a full-scale war, his duties, his family, dreams and plans for the future.

Interview with Oleksandr "Chechen" Pichkar

The video shows the commemoration of the victims of the attack in Volnovakha: a monument, military, people, priests, and a ceremony. 

The terrorist attack near Volnovakha took place on January 13, 2015.  Then, at about 14:30, the Russian occupiers used the GRAD system to shoot at a checkpoint of the Ukrainian military in Bugas, near Volnovakha. The occupiers fired more than 40 shells. One of them exploded next to a passenger bus "Zlatoustivka-Donetsk", which was carrying civilians. 12 passengers were killed and 18 were injured.

Terrorist attack near Volnovakha: honoring the victims

23 June 2014, Kyiv.

A plot about volunteers from the Donbas and Azov battalions taking their oath before leaving for the front. Donbas volunteers on the parade ground, military equipment, reading the oath, a girl seeing off her volunteer father, soldiers chanting slogans about Putin, Sophia Square, Azov volunteers, a child handing out chocolate bars to volunteers, a girl writing down her phone number, soldiers reciting the Nationalist Prayer, the Black Corps chevron.

Volunteers from the Donbas and Azov battalions, 2014

Lviv region, village of Lapaivka, October 5, 2025. Consequences of shelling.

In the video: ruins of a private house, damaged homes, cars, rescuers clearing debris. Interviews: Galina, local resident; Vitaliy Turovtsev, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of Lviv Region; Olena Yaroshevych, local resident; Volodymyr Gutnyk, village head of the Zymnovodivska community; Tetiana Tsygilyk, relative of the deceased.

Reference: The air raid alert in Lviv Region lasted more than 5 hours. Russia attacked Lviv and the region with cruise missiles, “Shahed” drones, and “Kinzhal” missiles. Dozens of explosions were heard during the alert. The attack damaged houses in Lapaivka, Lviv district, as well as houses and a school in Lviv.

Four people were killed in the village of Lapaivka, near Lviv, as a result of the shelling. 

Massive shelling of Lviv region: October 5, 2025

Kyiv region, Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, September 28, 2025. The aftermath of shelling. 

Video: an entire neighborhood destroyed, ruins of houses, damaged high-rise buildings, search and rescue operations underway, debris being cleared, wounded man, destroyed homes, destroyed cars, rescuers. Interviews: Mark Sergeev, owner of a damaged house; Vladislav, owner of a damaged house; Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration.

Reference: On the night of September 28, Russia launched a massive strike on the Kyiv region. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russian troops attacked the region with strike drones and cruise missiles. Dozens of people are known to have been injured. This was reported by Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration. In the Kyiv region, 31 people were injured, including three children, according to the State Emergency Service. The largest number of injuries, 19 people, were in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka.

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