Kryvyi Rih, 2025. Interview with Lyubov Svoroba. The woman talks about her nephew, 16-year-old Kostyantyn Novak, and her grandson, 15-year-old Mykyta Perehrest. The teenagers were killed in a rocket attack on the city on April 4, 2025. 

In the video: a room, a memorial corner: photos of the deceased, flowers, an icon with a prayer, keys, a patriotic ribbon, a card, an angel figurine, headphones, a toy on the bed.

Reference: An explosion occurred in Kryvyi Rih on April 4 at around 6:50 p.m. Russian troops attacked the center of a residential neighborhood with an Iskander missile, which hit near a playground. Twenty people were killed, including nine children. More than 70 residents were injured.

As a result of the attack, nearly two dozen apartment buildings, six educational institutions, a restaurant, and more than 30 vehicles were damaged in the city.

Killed by rocket fire: interview with a relative of the teenagers 

October 10, 2022, Dnipro.

The video shows the aftermath of a massive shelling of the city. Kalinova Street, damaged high-rise buildings, a street in ruins, destroyed public and private transport, rocket debris, a journalist's stand-up, destruction, police loading rocket debris into a car, a crater from the impact, victims in a damaged building, cleaning glass from the road, representatives of the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency).

Comments: victims; head of road safety at ATP Alexander Gonchar; deputy director of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration's Department of Health Oleksiy Grygoruk.

Background: On October 10, 2022, Russian forces carried out a large-scale missile and air strike on Ukraine, targeting mainly civilian and critical infrastructure. At least 14-20 people were killed and another 97-108 wounded. Many infrastructure facilities were damaged, including power plants, residential buildings, and critical facilities in several regions and in Kyiv. There were major power outages, leaving parts of Lviv, Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil, and other regions without electricity.

Massive shelling of Dnipro, October 10, 2022

October 10, 2022, Kyiv.

The video shows the aftermath of Russia's massive shelling of the capital. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is damaged, people are killed, cars are burned, buildings are damaged, a business center is destroyed, debris is scattered on the road, rescue operations are underway, and Volodymyr Klitschko is talking to foreign journalists. Commentary from a victim.

Reference: On October 10, 2022, Russian forces carried out a large-scale missile and air strike on Ukrainian territory, targeting mainly civilian and critical infrastructure. At least 14-20 people were killed and another 97-108 wounded. Many infrastructure facilities were damaged: power plants, residential buildings, critical facilities in several regions and in Kyiv. There were major power outages: parts of Lviv, Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil, and other regions were left without electricity.

Massive shelling of Kyiv, October 10, 2022

On the morning of September 4, 2024, the Russian army attacked Lviv with “shaheds” and rockets. There were a series of explosions in the city. More than 180 buildings in the historic part of Lviv were damaged. Seven people were killed. More than 60 people were injured. 

In the video: rescuers dismantling the rubble of a destroyed house on Konovalets Street, doctors helping the injured, special equipment working, rescuers clearing the entrance, going around the apartments of the destroyed house where almost the entire Bazylevych family died, comments from neighbors of the dead family, extinguishing the fire after a missile strike at the second location - Mikhnovskikh Street, people taking away the surviving items, cleaning up, residents and rescuers near the destroyed house, ambulance.

Interviewees: residents of the damaged houses, Mykola Humeniuk, deputy head of the main department of the State Emergency Service, Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the regional state administration, Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv. 

The shelling of Lviv on September 4, 2024 

Kharkiv, June 7, 2025. The aftermath of the most massive attack on Kharkiv since the start of the full-scale war.

In the video: a panorama of the city, black smoke above the horizon, upper floors destroyed by a drone are smoking, rescuers are carrying an injured person, utility workers are cleaning up near the entrance, rescuers are looking at the destroyed floors, medics, a State Emergency Service tent, a woman in a damaged room, people on a playground, construction debris under the building, a destroyed balcony and window, local residents cleaning up the aftermath of destroyed and damaged private homes, a street, traces of destruction, utility workers on a truck covering the roof with plastic sheeting, a destroyed courtyard, smoke. Part of the video is without sound. 

Interviews: Alona Lukyanova, local resident; Igor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv; Vladislav Karpov, representative of the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office; Yevgen Vasilenko, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of Kharkiv Region; local residents Iryna Ivanenko, Serhiy Rudenko, Ruslana Sheveleva. 

Background: In Kharkiv, starting at 3 a.m. on June 7, 2025, more than 50 explosions were heard within two hours. Russian drones, missiles, and aerial bombs struck the city. There are reports of hits in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv on a business, a private home, and the grounds of a higher education institution. In the Osnovyanskyi district, a high-rise building was hit. There are wounded and one person killed. Fires broke out. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov called this Russian attack on the city the most powerful since the invasion began. 

The most massive attack on Kharkiv: June 7, 2025

Ternopil, June 6, 2025. The aftermath of the Russian attack on the city.

The video shows damaged industrial and infrastructure facilities, black smoke over the city, fire trucks, police, people wearing masks, broken windows, destroyed buildings, specialists from the regional disease control center measuring the air after the fire, one of the debris stuck on trolleybus lines, one of the buildings of the Ternopil National Technical University and other buildings in the city damaged, people cleaning up glass and debris. 

Reference: On June 6, 2025, Ternopil suffered a combined attack by the Russian Federation: 11 shahids and three missiles hit the city. Eleven people were injured, six of whom were hospitalized. The fire was extinguished by 111 rescuers. Twenty-six pieces of special equipment were used. Six rescuers suffered burns.

Shelling of Ternopil on June 6, 2025

Lutsk, June 6, 2025. Combined attack by the Russian Federation on the city. 

The video shows Striletska Street, smoke above buildings, a road, police officers, rescue workers, a damaged apartment, rocket debris, an aid tent, a house on Ozeretska Street, damaged cars, broken trees, a blocked road, broken windows, and damaged houses. Interviews with local residents and Larysa Dukhnevych, CEO of the Lutsk Community Medical Association.

Reference: On the night of June 6, several explosions were heard in Lutsk. According to Mayor Ihor Polishchuk, the Russians launched 15 UAVs and six cruise missiles at the city. Fifteen people are known to have been injured. Residential buildings, educational institutions, cars, administrative buildings, and commercial facilities were damaged in several areas of the city.

Combined attack on Lutsk: June 6, 2025

Kharkiv, June 4, 2025. Consequences of an air strike, emergency rescue operations at the site of the strikes.

In the video: fire trucks, rescuers extinguishing the fire, an explosives expert at work, parts of a drone, the owner of the damaged house walking through the ruins, volunteers at a table near a Red Cross vehicle, the ruins of a garage, a window boarded up with plywood, a place where aid is being distributed, a partially destroyed house. Interviews: Volodymyr Sokolnyk, owner of the damaged house; Bohdan Hladkykh, director of the city's emergency department; Vladyslav Karpov, representative of the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office; Stefaniya Muratova, local resident; Tetiana Khavalji, Red Cross emergency logistics assistant.

Background: On the night of June 4, 2025, Russians attacked the Novobavarsky district of Kharkiv with drones and X-35 missiles. There are reports of strikes on a civilian enterprise, near high-rise buildings, and in the private sector. Fires broke out at the site.

Attacks on Kharkiv on June 4, 2025

Chernihiv region, village of Mokhnatyn, 2025. The story of Oksana Samodiy, whose twin sons were shot by Russians. The video shows the place where the brothers died, the cemetery, the boys' graves, and an interview with Oksana Samodiy. 

Reference: On March 14, 2022, in the village of Mokhnatyn near Chernihiv, Russian soldiers shot three local teenagers — 17-year-old twin brothers Yevhen and Bohdan Samodiy and their 18-year-old friend Valentyn Yakymchuk. According to Serhiy Vasylyna, then head of the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, a convoy of Russian military equipment was passing through Mokhnatyn: seven fuel trucks and three KamAZ trucks with ammunition, accompanied by an infantry fighting vehicle. Local residents were walking by when they were shot from the infantry fighting vehicle.

The story of Bohdan and Yevhen Samodiy, who were shot by Russians

Interview with Ostap "Ostapchyk" Shved, a soldier of the 12th "Azov" brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, July 26, 2024.

It tells about the full-scale invasion, the defense of Mariupol, the capture, torture, the terrorist attack in Olenivka, the wounded comrades, the fighters of the "DPR" and the Russian military, the exchange and return to the army.

Reference: Ostap "Ostapchyk" Shved is a scout of the 12th "Azov" brigade of NSU. He was born on May 29, 1993 in the city of Stryi, Lviv region. Graduated from the National Pharmaceutical University in Kharkiv, majoring in clinical pharmacist. Until 2015, he was a student, worked as a doctor in a hospital, engaged in boxing and wrestling. From January 26, 2015, he was a soldier of "Azov", a participant in the Pavlopil-Shyroky offensive operation, a defender of Mariupol, decapitated.

Azovets "Ostapchyk" about the terrorist attack in Olenivka

July 20, 2018, Luhansk region.

The plot is dedicated to the third anniversary of the death of Major General Oleksandr Radievskyi, who liberated Sievierodonetsk (since 2024 - Siverskodonetsk) and was killed during the battle for Lysychansk. Footage from the day Sievierodonetsk was liberated, the place where Radiyevsky was killed, a monument to the major general in the city, and a journalist's stand-up routine.

Comments: Colonel of the National Guard Oleksandr Piskun; Olga Korelska, a resident of Lysychansk; Olena Kuchynska, a resident of Sievierodonetsk; Oleksandr Dotsenko, a soldier; Serhiy Molchanov, a resident of Sievierodonetsk.

Reference: Oleksandr Radiyevskyi was a Ukrainian soldier, colonel of the National Guard, ATO participant who commanded the liberation of Sloviansk, Mykolaivka, and Sievierodonetsk. He was killed on July 23, 2014 near Lysychansk in an ambush. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of Major General.

Major General Oleksandr Radievskyi

August 20, 2014, Sievierodonetsk (Siverskodonetsk).

A plot about life in the city a month after the de-occupation. A destroyed bridge with a checkpoint, graffiti “Luhansk Battalion-1”, archive footage from the day the city was liberated, locals meet Ukrainian soldiers, flowers and lamps near the portrait of the fallen Colonel Oleksandr Radievsky, Severodonetsk City Council, the aftermath of shelling, the Severodonetsk stele.

Comments: Sergiy Samarsky, a resident of the city, head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party in Sievierodonetsk (killed on November 2, 2017); Olena Hrynko, a resident of the city.

Reference: On July 22, 2014, Sievierodonetsk was liberated from pro-Russian militants. The liberation took place after fighting as part of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). The battle for Sievierodonetsk and the neighboring towns of Rubizhne and Lysychansk lasted from May to July 2014.

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