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Transcript/Script EnglishUkraine Shopping Center Attack – Lysenko
HEAD: At least Eight Dead After Attack on Kyiv Shopping Center
TEASER: For some shoppers, survival was a matter of chance
PUBLISHED: 03/25/2022 11:50a.m.
BYLINE: Serhiy Lysenko
DATELINE: Kyiv, Ukraine
CAMERA: Serhiy Lysenko
VIDEO EDITOR: Anna Rice
PRODUCER:
SCRIPT EDITORS: Bowman, Jepsen
VIDEO FROM: VOA
TYPE: TVPKG
TRT:2:07
VIDEO APPROVER'S INITIALS: KE
UPDATE: ))
((INTRO))
[[A deadly airstrike on a Kyiv shopping center is but one example of Russian forces targeting civilian structures in Ukraine. VOA’s Serhiy Lysenko visited the scene and spoke with survivors of the attack. Anna Rice narrates his story.]]
((NARRATION))
Late on March 20th, Russian forces bombarded a Kyiv shopping center, damaging nearby residential buildings and leaving at least eight people dead. The nighttime strike set the mall ablaze, drawing dozens of firefighters to the scene. For many in the area, life or death was a matter of luck.
((Oleksiy Moroz, Kyiv Resident)) ((In Ukrainian))
“I usually charge my car in one of the spots over there. I got lucky I decided not to leave it here.”
((NARRATION))
For hours after the attack, rescuers and emergency workers combed through the rubble in hopes of finding survivors. The blast broke windows in nearby apartment complexes. Russia claimed it struck the mall because it was being used to store rockets. The New York Times reported that no military equipment was found in the wreckage.
Galyna lived in an apartment building near the mall. Her home is severely damaged.
((Galyna, Kyiv Resident)) ((In Ukrainian))
“What would I say to those who fired this rocket? I would honestly want them to live – for at least one day – in the conditions we are living in. How our children live, our grandchildren, elderly people who can’t move without assistance. That’s what I wish upon them! // We can get hysterical; we can cry about everything we invested – the hard work and the money. … But if I start crying, what will it change? Nothing. So, I
believe we’ll get through this, we will build everything up anew. This ‘Russian Peace’ won’t win; we are invincible, because we stick together. In unity is our strength.”
((NARRATION))
This is not the first attack on a Ukrainian shopping facility. A Megamarket grocery store in Myla, some 20 kilometers west of central Kyiv, had previously been damaged, as had a supermarket in Kharkiv that was shelled by Russian forces.
((For Serhiy Lysenko in Kyiv, Anna Rice, VOA News))
Transcript/ScriptUkraine Shopping Center Attack – Lysenko
HEAD: At least Eight Dead After Attack on Kyiv Shopping Center
TEASER: For some shoppers, survival was a matter of chance
PUBLISHED: 03/25/2022 11:50a.m.
BYLINE: Serhiy Lysenko
DATELINE: Kyiv, Ukraine
CAMERA: Serhiy Lysenko
VIDEO EDITOR: Anna Rice
PRODUCER:
SCRIPT EDITORS: Bowman, Jepsen
VIDEO FROM: VOA
TYPE: TVPKG
TRT:2:07
VIDEO APPROVER'S INITIALS: KE
UPDATE: ))
((INTRO))
[[A deadly airstrike on a Kyiv shopping center is but one example of Russian forces targeting civilian structures in Ukraine. VOA’s Serhiy Lysenko visited the scene and spoke with survivors of the attack. Anna Rice narrates his story.]]
((NARRATION))
Late on March 20th, Russian forces bombarded a Kyiv shopping center, damaging nearby residential buildings and leaving at least eight people dead. The nighttime strike set the mall ablaze, drawing dozens of firefighters to the scene. For many in the area, life or death was a matter of luck.
((Oleksiy Moroz, Kyiv Resident)) ((In Ukrainian))
“I usually charge my car in one of the spots over there. I got lucky I decided not to leave it here.”
((NARRATION))
For hours after the attack, rescuers and emergency workers combed through the rubble in hopes of finding survivors. The blast broke windows in nearby apartment complexes. Russia claimed it struck the mall because it was being used to store rockets. The New York Times reported that no military equipment was found in the wreckage.
Galyna lived in an apartment building near the mall. Her home is severely damaged.
((Galyna, Kyiv Resident)) ((In Ukrainian))
“What would I say to those who fired this rocket? I would honestly want them to live – for at least one day – in the conditions we are living in. How our children live, our grandchildren, elderly people who can’t move without assistance. That’s what I wish upon them! // We can get hysterical; we can cry about everything we invested – the hard work and the money. … But if I start crying, what will it change? Nothing. So, I
believe we’ll get through this, we will build everything up anew. This ‘Russian Peace’ won’t win; we are invincible, because we stick together. In unity is our strength.”
((NARRATION))
This is not the first attack on a Ukrainian shopping facility. A Megamarket grocery store in Myla, some 20 kilometers west of central Kyiv, had previously been damaged, as had a supermarket in Kharkiv that was shelled by Russian forces.
((For Serhiy Lysenko in Kyiv, Anna Rice, VOA News))
NewsML Media TopicsConflict, War and Peace, Economy, Business and Finance
Topic TagsShopping Center
Ukraine
NetworkVOA
Embargo DateMarch 25, 2022 14:24 EDT
Description EnglishA deadly airstrike on a Kyiv shopping center is but one example of Russian forces targeting civilian structures in Ukraine. VOA’s Serhiy Lysenko visited the scene and spoke with survivors of the attack. Anna Rice narrates his story.
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