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Transcript/ScriptMaryland Helps Ukraine – Anisimova
HEAD: US State of Maryland Sends Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine
PUBLISHED AT: 05/17/2022 at 12pm
BYLINE: Liliya Anisimova
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DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: Andre Sergunin
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA + News Agencies
PLATFORMS: TV only
COPY EDITORS: Enochs, Jepsen
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TRT: 3:24
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[[Maryland’s public safety agencies have come together to organize help for Ukraine. The state’s governor, Larry Hogan, the Maryland Health Department, as well as the state’s police department donated medical equipment, medical supplies, and PPE to Ukraine’s hospitals and first responders. VOA’s Russian Service produced this report.]]
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Medical equipment worth more than 5 million dollars — including 485,000 bandages and wound treatment material, 195 lung ventilators – both standard and portable – will be sent to Ukraine.
All this, thanks to Maryland’s health department and the state’s governor, through United Help Ukraine and the Paul Chester Children’s Hope Foundation.
The Maryland police department has donated Personal Protective Equipment, including hundreds of tactical gear and body armor.
((Karina Mandell, Baltimore-Odesa Sister City Committee))
“To put in perspective what 170 pallets is, it’s a cargo plane’s worth. We’ve been on the phone for the last 48 hours trying to see how we can get so much of this aid over there, because I didn’t expect it to be such an overwhelming response, and I am deeply, deeply grateful.”
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Baltimore has been Odesa’s sister city since 1975. After talking to Odesa’s mayor, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan decided to do what he could to help Ukraine and do it fast. For one, to provide lung ventilators to Ukrainian soldiers.
((Larry Hogan, Maryland Governor))
“We have an overabundance [of lung ventilators] that we gathered during COVID, and so, this was 5 million dollars’ worth of stuff that we are sending. This came directly as a result of my discussion with the mayor of Odesa who said they desperately need medical supplies.”
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Boris Levonenko is a member of the United Help Ukraine organization that has been providing aid to Ukraine since 2014. He is originally from Kharkiv.
((Boris Levonenko, United Help Ukraine)) ((IN RUSSIAN))
“At 4:45 a.m., the first explosions were heard in Kharkiv. It was really loud; I couldn’t sleep that night. My family is not there, but many friends are there, my wife has relatives there. … Many have left the city though because it’s impossible to stay there at the moment.”
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Levonenko says in just a few days, the PPE and medical equipment that’s being sent to Ukraine will have arrived in Lviv, and from there into hospitals and to the first responders.
((Al Romanosky, Maryland Health Department))
“This ventilator is a full-functional ventilator that is applicable for children over 5 kilograms, all the way up to adults. It can be used under any number of circumstances, for individuals that have different types of injury to their lungs and their heart.”
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The governor of Maryland has noted that Ukrainian soldiers are not just protecting their own country, but the whole free world from Vladimir Putin’s baseless aggression. He says it’s important to support them in any way possible.
((Larry Hogan, Maryland Governor))
“Immediately following Russia’s invasion, we terminated Maryland’s 30-year sister-state relationship with the Leningrad region of Russia. I had directed all state agencies to immediately review and terminate any and all contracts, procurements and holdings and ties they may have with any Russian entities.”
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The governor – like many others in the US and the West – says the actions of the Kremlin are making Russia an outcast on the world arena.
((For VOA’s Russian Service, VOA News, Washington))
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