Ukraine Rebuilding Sumy WEB
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- Ukraine Rebuilding Sumy WEB
- June 20, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: TV Ukraine, Rebuilding Sumy – Adamenko HEADLINE: In Poland and Separated From Family, Woman Returns to Ukraine TEASER: Iryna Martynenko decides she no longer wants to help her native city of Sumy from afar PUBLISHED AT: 6/20/2022 at 8:20am BYLINE: Olena Adamenko CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Sumy, Ukraine VIDEOGRAPHER: Mykhailo Zaika VIDEO EDITOR: Mykhailo Zaika SCRIPT EDITORS: KE; VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Story Hunter PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:29 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) [[According to United Nations estimates, some 2.5 million Ukrainians have crossed the Polish border and gone back to Ukraine. Iryna Martynenko was among those who returned to her native city of Sumy, in the northeast. Olena Adamenko has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.]] ((NATS)) ((Woman shoots from a rifle)) ((NARRATION)) Sumy resident Iryna Martynenko has spent the past month learning how to shoot a rifle and administer first aid. Before the war, she helped people rent canoes and paddleboards and plan their Ukrainian vacations. ((Mandatory courtesy: Artem Poznanskiy)) In Sumy, this type of business is seasonal, so in December 2021, Martynenko went to ((End courtesy)) Poland to earn some money. She was there when she learned Russia had invaded her native Ukraine. ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “No one could work or do anything. Everyone stared at their phones, walked around and cried.” ((NARRATION)) On the very first day of the war, Martynenko wanted to go back to Sumy, but her friends told her that the city had been blocked off and it was virtually impossible to come back. ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “I thought I’d have to find something to do here. And we started to think how we could help Sumy.” ((NARRATION)) ((Mandatory courtesy: Iryna Martynenko)) Together with other Sumy residents in Warsaw, Martynenko started collecting medication, food items and clothes for people back home. In April, she decided to return. ((End courtesy)) ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “I decided it was time to come back home. More so because all my relatives — my parents, my brother — they all stayed in Ukraine. My dog Tusya had been waiting for me especially patiently." ((NATS)) ((Iryna driving a car, her tattoo says ‘Good evening, we’re from Ukraine’)) ((NARRATION)) She headed home, with a new tattoo that said, “Good evening, we’re from Ukraine,” a phrase that Mykolaiv region Governor Vitaliy Kim uses to open his popular video reports, and that has come to symbolize Ukrainian bravery and unity. ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “While I was in Warsaw, I didn’t have a chance to buy such a T-shirt, so I went ahead and made a tattoo — and now I have a T-shirt that I can never take off [laughs].” ((NATS)) ((Iryna approaches a building entrance with a warning sign)) ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “It feels very different compared to how it used to be. The city lives a different life — constant sound of sirens, sounds of shelling. It’s scary for everyone. But it’s my home. This is where my life is.” ((NARRATION)) Martynenko plans to start working in tourism again when it’s possible. She also dreams of opening a nursery garden and doing landscape design so her home will look as beautiful and green as it once was. ((For Olena Adamenko in Sumy, Ukraine, Anna Rice, VOA News))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: TV Ukraine, Rebuilding Sumy – Adamenko HEADLINE: In Poland and Separated From Family, Woman Returns to Ukraine TEASER: Iryna Martynenko decides she no longer wants to help her native city of Sumy from afar PUBLISHED AT: 6/20/2022 at 8:20am BYLINE: Olena Adamenko CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Sumy, Ukraine VIDEOGRAPHER: Mykhailo Zaika VIDEO EDITOR: Mykhailo Zaika SCRIPT EDITORS: KE; VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Story Hunter PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:29 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) [[According to United Nations estimates, some 2.5 million Ukrainians have crossed the Polish border and gone back to Ukraine. Iryna Martynenko was among those who returned to her native city of Sumy, in the northeast. Olena Adamenko has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.]] ((NATS)) ((Woman shoots from a rifle)) ((NARRATION)) Sumy resident Iryna Martynenko has spent the past month learning how to shoot a rifle and administer first aid. Before the war, she helped people rent canoes and paddleboards and plan their Ukrainian vacations. ((Mandatory courtesy: Artem Poznanskiy)) In Sumy, this type of business is seasonal, so in December 2021, Martynenko went to ((End courtesy)) Poland to earn some money. She was there when she learned Russia had invaded her native Ukraine. ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “No one could work or do anything. Everyone stared at their phones, walked around and cried.” ((NARRATION)) On the very first day of the war, Martynenko wanted to go back to Sumy, but her friends told her that the city had been blocked off and it was virtually impossible to come back. ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “I thought I’d have to find something to do here. And we started to think how we could help Sumy.” ((NARRATION)) ((Mandatory courtesy: Iryna Martynenko)) Together with other Sumy residents in Warsaw, Martynenko started collecting medication, food items and clothes for people back home. In April, she decided to return. ((End courtesy)) ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “I decided it was time to come back home. More so because all my relatives — my parents, my brother — they all stayed in Ukraine. My dog Tusya had been waiting for me especially patiently." ((NATS)) ((Iryna driving a car, her tattoo says ‘Good evening, we’re from Ukraine’)) ((NARRATION)) She headed home, with a new tattoo that said, “Good evening, we’re from Ukraine,” a phrase that Mykolaiv region Governor Vitaliy Kim uses to open his popular video reports, and that has come to symbolize Ukrainian bravery and unity. ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “While I was in Warsaw, I didn’t have a chance to buy such a T-shirt, so I went ahead and made a tattoo — and now I have a T-shirt that I can never take off [laughs].” ((NATS)) ((Iryna approaches a building entrance with a warning sign)) ((Iryna Martynenko, Sumy Resident)) ((IN UKRAINIAN)) “It feels very different compared to how it used to be. The city lives a different life — constant sound of sirens, sounds of shelling. It’s scary for everyone. But it’s my home. This is where my life is.” ((NARRATION)) Martynenko plans to start working in tourism again when it’s possible. She also dreams of opening a nursery garden and doing landscape design so her home will look as beautiful and green as it once was. ((For Olena Adamenko in Sumy, Ukraine, Anna Rice, VOA News))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date June 20, 2022 07:58 EDT
- Byline Olena Adamenko
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America