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Survivors of Missile Strike on Lviv, Ukraine, Apartment Complex Describe Ordeal
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HEADLINE: Survivors of Missile Strike on Lviv, Ukraine, Apartment Complex Describe Ordeal
TEASER: Father, mother and five children determined to remain in country despite Russian threat
PUBLISHED: 07/xx/2023 at
BYLINE: Omelyan Oshchudlyak
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Lviv, Ukraine
VIDEOGRAPHER: Yuriy Dankevych
VIDEO EDITOR: Yuriy Dankevych
SCRIPT EDITORS: KEnochs; Reifenrath
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA Ihor Kysylevych, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, CCTV; Lviv Civil-Military Administration/Maksym Kozytskyi; National Police of Ukraine
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB _ TV X RADIO __
TRT: 2:31
VID APPROVED BY: KE
TYPE: TVPKG
EDITOR NOTES:
((INTRO))
[[More than a thousand kilometers from the front line, the city of Lviv, Ukraine, is still vulnerable to Russian missile strikes. A mother, father and five children who survived a July 6th strike on a Lviv, Ukraine, apartment complex share their tale. Omelyan Oshchudlyak has the story.]]
00:00 – 00:13 – State Emergency Service of Ukraine
((NARRATION))
Hours after a Russian missile attack July 6th in the city of Lviv, Ukraine, Ihor Kysylevych, shown pointing to his car license plate, managed to escape the chaos, along with his wife and their five children.
((Ihor Kysylevych, Lviv Resident)) ((UKR))
“The first missile hit happened. Explosions. Then the second, the fatal one. Had we been walking through the courtyard then, we would have been dead now, just like the cars there.”
00:33 – 00:41 – CCTV source: https://www.tiktok.com/@vadym644/video/7252659860175604998
((NARRATION))
Closed-circuit television cameras in the building's courtyard and cameras one kilometer away from the epicenter captured the strikes that caused the death of ten people.
((Mirka Klos, Ihor Kysylevych’s Wife)) ((UKR))
“One of the boys started yelling, ‘We must survive!, We must survive!’ Children were crying and shrieking.”
00:56-01:04 – Ihor Kysylevych
((NARRATION))
Of Ihor and Mirka's children, 15-year-old Yarema is the oldest, and 1-year-old Myroslav is the youngest, born during the war.
01:15-01:19 - Ihor Kysylevych
01:20-01:25 - National Police of Ukraine
((Yarema Klos, Ihor Kysylevych’s Son)) ((UKR))
“The stairwell passage was blocked, everyone wanted to get out, people panicked. Someone was injured. We squeezed through with the kids. I took one of my brothers and got to the courtyard, which was filled with bricks, beams and metal debris. All the cars were damaged, covered in dust. A soldier shouted that another missile was coming and that we needed to run.”
01:32-01:37 – Lviv Civil-Military Administration/Maksym Kozytskyi
((Dariya Klos, Ihor Kysylevych’s Daughter)) ((UKR))
“I was in my pajamas and took Mom's green sweater from the hallway. We left the house, and I noticed a piece of the neighboring green building was missing.”
((NARRATION))
Once outside, the family heard the third explosion. They lay on the grass and waited. None of them were injured, but the shockwaves and debris damaged the family car.
01:50 – Ihor Kysylevych
Still, they are determined to stay in Ukraine despite the war.
((Mirka Klos, Ihor Kysylevych’s Wife)) ((UKR))
“My kids know very well that these missiles came from Russia; they know the name of the Russian President. I don't hide it; they know they are being destroyed because they are Ukrainian. They talk about it at school, at home, and in church. We don't use tender, affectionate, childish language for this war.”
((Ihor Kysylevych, Lviv Resident)) ((UKR))
“By staying here, we are proving to ourselves that we believe in our country and in our children`s future!”
02:16-02:27 - State Emergency Service of Ukraine
((NARRATION))
According to Lviv City Council, dozens of private residences were affected by the missile attack in the UNESCO buffer zone near the historic city center.
((Omelyan Oshchudlyak for VOA News, Lviv, Ukraine))
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