Dnipro Horses Refugees WEB
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- Dnipro Horses Refugees WEB
- May 4, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((TITLE: TV Dnipro Horses Refugees – Movchan HEAD: In Ukraine, Horses Evacuated To Dnipro, Out Of Harm’s Way TEASER: PUBLISHED:05/04/2022 at 8:30am BYLINE: Yaroslava Movchan DATELINE: Dnipro, Ukraine CAMERA: Oleksandr Khoroshun VIDEO EDITOR: PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: KE, MAS VIDEO FROM: VOA TYPE: TVPKG TRT: 3:10 VIDEO APPROVER'S INITIALS: KE UPDATE: )) ((INTRO)): In Ukraine, where according to UN estimates over five million people have already left their homes to flee the war, there are other refugees who have been evacuated too – horses. Yaroslava Movchan has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. ((NARRATION)) Kostiantyn is doing what he’s been doing for years – filling up buckets with water and feeding the horses. This black horse with a white mark on its forehead is his favorite, his name is Indus. Indus is the leader of the herd whose home was in Kreminna, in Ukraine’s Luhansk region. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “When the bombs started falling, this stallion led the other horses to a safe spot. If it were not for him, there would be nothing left of the herd now.” ((NARRATION)) Kostiantyn was a handler and stunt rider in an equestrian theatrical show in Kyiv when Russia invaded Ukraine. He was learning to become a blacksmith so he could shoe the horses himself. When he heard the war had started, he asked his friends in Kreminna to open the stables because he was afraid the animals might starve if left unattended. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “When the shelling started, the horses ran, they would hide in the fields, but they would inevitably come back home…” ((NARRATION)) By then, mass evacuations of civilians were underway in Kreminna, but Kostiantyn was determined to save the horses. First, he asked the International Federation for Equestrian Sports for help, then started raising money and looking for volunteers. Today, he says it’s a true miracle the animals were saved. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “When we finally arrived to Kreminna, it was nighttime. When I fed every one of them, when I gave them water, I sat down and looked at them – even then I didn’t fully realize what we had done. But after I finally processed everything, I just sat there, looking at them, and I cried like a child.” ((NARRATION)) He evacuated a total of 11 horses. Five were taken to Ternopil, the rest – to Dnipro. Now there are 20 horses in these stables, some of them are refugees. Maryna calls herself a nomad. It’s the second time she – together with her horse – has run away from war. In 2014, she left her hometown of Donetsk when it was occupied by Russian separatists; then she moved to Kharkiv. This time, she had to flee again – and of course her horse went with her. ((Maryna Morozova, Instructor)) ((IN RUSSIAN)) “His name is Avtoritet, I call him Ayuha. He’s a mommy’s boy, he’s twelve already. After the first few bombs fell in Kharkov, I decided I would risk it – and we left.” ((NARRATION)) Kostiantyn plans to resume his equestrian work in the Ternopil region and launch horse therapy sessions for Ukrainian children and soldiers traumatized by war. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “We’ll call our theatre, our stables Kreminschina – we’ll pay homage to our native town this way…” ((For Yaroslava Movchan in Dnipro, Ukraine, Anna Rice, VOA News))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((TITLE: TV Dnipro Horses Refugees – Movchan HEAD: In Ukraine, Horses Evacuated To Dnipro, Out Of Harm’s Way TEASER: PUBLISHED:05/04/2022 at 8:30am BYLINE: Yaroslava Movchan DATELINE: Dnipro, Ukraine CAMERA: Oleksandr Khoroshun VIDEO EDITOR: PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: KE, MAS VIDEO FROM: VOA TYPE: TVPKG TRT: 3:10 VIDEO APPROVER'S INITIALS: KE UPDATE: )) ((INTRO)): In Ukraine, where according to UN estimates over five million people have already left their homes to flee the war, there are other refugees who have been evacuated too – horses. Yaroslava Movchan has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. ((NARRATION)) Kostiantyn is doing what he’s been doing for years – filling up buckets with water and feeding the horses. This black horse with a white mark on its forehead is his favorite, his name is Indus. Indus is the leader of the herd whose home was in Kreminna, in Ukraine’s Luhansk region. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “When the bombs started falling, this stallion led the other horses to a safe spot. If it were not for him, there would be nothing left of the herd now.” ((NARRATION)) Kostiantyn was a handler and stunt rider in an equestrian theatrical show in Kyiv when Russia invaded Ukraine. He was learning to become a blacksmith so he could shoe the horses himself. When he heard the war had started, he asked his friends in Kreminna to open the stables because he was afraid the animals might starve if left unattended. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “When the shelling started, the horses ran, they would hide in the fields, but they would inevitably come back home…” ((NARRATION)) By then, mass evacuations of civilians were underway in Kreminna, but Kostiantyn was determined to save the horses. First, he asked the International Federation for Equestrian Sports for help, then started raising money and looking for volunteers. Today, he says it’s a true miracle the animals were saved. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “When we finally arrived to Kreminna, it was nighttime. When I fed every one of them, when I gave them water, I sat down and looked at them – even then I didn’t fully realize what we had done. But after I finally processed everything, I just sat there, looking at them, and I cried like a child.” ((NARRATION)) He evacuated a total of 11 horses. Five were taken to Ternopil, the rest – to Dnipro. Now there are 20 horses in these stables, some of them are refugees. Maryna calls herself a nomad. It’s the second time she – together with her horse – has run away from war. In 2014, she left her hometown of Donetsk when it was occupied by Russian separatists; then she moved to Kharkiv. This time, she had to flee again – and of course her horse went with her. ((Maryna Morozova, Instructor)) ((IN RUSSIAN)) “His name is Avtoritet, I call him Ayuha. He’s a mommy’s boy, he’s twelve already. After the first few bombs fell in Kharkov, I decided I would risk it – and we left.” ((NARRATION)) Kostiantyn plans to resume his equestrian work in the Ternopil region and launch horse therapy sessions for Ukrainian children and soldiers traumatized by war. ((Kostiantyn, Horse Handler)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “We’ll call our theatre, our stables Kreminschina – we’ll pay homage to our native town this way…” ((For Yaroslava Movchan in Dnipro, Ukraine, Anna Rice, VOA News))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date May 4, 2022 08:49 EDT
- Byline Yaroslava Movchan
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America