UKRAINE WAR VICTIMS FUTURE
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- UKRAINE WAR VICTIMS FUTURE
- January 25, 2024
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: UKRAINE WAR VICTIMS FUTURE HEADLINE: The Devasatation Left by Shelling: One Kyiv Resident’s Story PUBLISHED: 01/25/2024 at 2:45PM BYLINE: Lesia Bakalets CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Kyiv VIDEOGRAPHER: Evgenii Shynkar ASSIGNING EDITOR: LR SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, Reifenrath PRODUCER: Barry Unger VIDEO SOURCES: VOA ORIGINAL, REUTERS, mandatory courtesy PLATFORMS: WEB __ TV X_ RADIO_X TRT: 2:45 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TV/R UPDATE: ((INTRO)) Lyudmyla Opanasenko and her husband are working to rebuild their lives after Russian shelling on January 2nd damaged their home in Kyiv. VOA’s Lesia Bakalets met with her in the Ukrainian capital to talk about about her life now and her plans in the face of so much uncertainty. ((NARRATOR)) A Russian rocket struck this apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, early January 2nd. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “As I understand, the rocket landed and exploded, and the parts flew away. The house caught fire. There was smoke; nothing was visible at all here”. [[RADIO VERSION: Building resident Lyudmyla Opanasenko says the rocket landed and exploded, and the parts flew away. The house caught fire. There was smoke. Nothing was visible at all.]] ((NARRATOR)) Three weeks on, Opanasenko still comes to her ninth floor apartment to pack some of her and her husband's things and inspect the damage. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “We have to go upstairs on foot because the elevators don't work. The explosion damaged the elevator shafts”. [[RADIO VERSION: She says they must use the stairs because the elevators don't work. The explosion damaged the elevator shafts.]] ((NARRATOR)) ((MANDATORY COURTESY – Lyudmyla Opanasenko)) Much of the apartment has been cleaned up since the strike. Volunteers helped gather debris and board up windows. But shards of glass are still in the walls, furniture is broken, and the bathroom has no tiles — all reminders of the trauma they endured after the shelling began. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “We had just come into the bathroom. I sat on the closed toilet, my husband on the floor, and one minute later, the explosion happened. I just fell on my husband. He says I screamed a lot”. [[RADIO VERSION: Lyudmyla Opanasenko says on the day of the attack, she and her husband had just come into the bathroom. She sat on the closed toilet, her husband on the floor, and one minute later, the explosion happened. She just fell on her husband. He said she had screamed a lot.]] ((NARRATOR)) ((MANDATORY COURTESY – Lyudmyla Opanasenko)) Shortly after the attack, the couple left the apartment with their two cats and some necessities. Opanasenko says they are grateful to be alive and to have a temporary place to stay. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “There are not many of our things here, but I took my favorite cup. I bought it in Seattle”. [[RADIO VERSION: She says not many of their belongings are in the new apartment, but she did take her favorite cup, which she bought in Seattle.]] ((NARRATOR)) In the borrowed kitchen, she begins to get her life back. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Destroyed by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “I am an endocrinologist and blogger, and my routine — what keeps me afloat — is firstly good nutrition. So, I started preparing my vitamin salad again, which is familiar to my subscribers”. [[RADIO VERSION: Opanasenko says she is an endocrinologist and blogger, and her routine — what keeps her afloat — is firstly good nutrition. So, she started preparing her vitamin salad again, which is familiar to her subscribers.]] ((NARRATOR)) She plans to open a private practice soon and is determined to have a better life. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Destroyed by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “I also understood that before, I just worked and tried to be useful. I didn't allow myself much. And now I have decided that I don't have to live like this”. [[RADIO VERSION: Opanasenko says that before the attack, she just worked and tried to be useful. She didn't allow herself much. But now she has decided that she doesn't have to live like that.]] ((NARRATOR)) She treats herself to a manicure, returning to her old neighborhood to support a local beauty salon also damaged by the shelling. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Destroyed by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR)) “The girls from the salon supported me a lot, and I want to help their business in this way, too”. [[RADIO VERSION: Opanasenko says that the girls from the salon supported her a lot, and that she wants to help their business in return.]] ((NARRATOR)) As for Opanasenko’s apartment building, local authorities are optimistic that it could be rebuilt in about a year. Lesia Bakalets, VOA news, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Transcript/Script ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: UKRAINE WAR VICTIMS FUTURE HEADLINE: The Devasatation Left by Shelling: One Kyiv Resident’s Story PUBLISHED: 01/25/2024 at 2:45PM BYLINE: Lesia Bakalets CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Kyiv VIDEOGRAPHER: Evgenii Shynkar ASSIGNING EDITOR: LR SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, Reifenrath PRODUCER: Barry Unger VIDEO SOURCES: VOA ORIGINAL, REUTERS, mandatory courtesy PLATFORMS: WEB __ TV X_ RADIO_X TRT: 2:45 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TV/R UPDATE: ((INTRO)) Lyudmyla Opanasenko and her husband are working to rebuild their lives after Russian shelling on January 2nd damaged their home in Kyiv. VOA’s Lesia Bakalets met with her in the Ukrainian capital to talk about about her life now and her plans in the face of so much uncertainty. ((NARRATOR)) A Russian rocket struck this apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, early January 2nd. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “As I understand, the rocket landed and exploded, and the parts flew away. The house caught fire. There was smoke; nothing was visible at all here”. [[RADIO VERSION: Building resident Lyudmyla Opanasenko says the rocket landed and exploded, and the parts flew away. The house caught fire. There was smoke. Nothing was visible at all.]] ((NARRATOR)) Three weeks on, Opanasenko still comes to her ninth floor apartment to pack some of her and her husband's things and inspect the damage. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “We have to go upstairs on foot because the elevators don't work. The explosion damaged the elevator shafts”. [[RADIO VERSION: She says they must use the stairs because the elevators don't work. The explosion damaged the elevator shafts.]] ((NARRATOR)) ((MANDATORY COURTESY – Lyudmyla Opanasenko)) Much of the apartment has been cleaned up since the strike. Volunteers helped gather debris and board up windows. But shards of glass are still in the walls, furniture is broken, and the bathroom has no tiles — all reminders of the trauma they endured after the shelling began. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “We had just come into the bathroom. I sat on the closed toilet, my husband on the floor, and one minute later, the explosion happened. I just fell on my husband. He says I screamed a lot”. [[RADIO VERSION: Lyudmyla Opanasenko says on the day of the attack, she and her husband had just come into the bathroom. She sat on the closed toilet, her husband on the floor, and one minute later, the explosion happened. She just fell on her husband. He said she had screamed a lot.]] ((NARRATOR)) ((MANDATORY COURTESY – Lyudmyla Opanasenko)) Shortly after the attack, the couple left the apartment with their two cats and some necessities. Opanasenko says they are grateful to be alive and to have a temporary place to stay. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Damaged by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “There are not many of our things here, but I took my favorite cup. I bought it in Seattle”. [[RADIO VERSION: She says not many of their belongings are in the new apartment, but she did take her favorite cup, which she bought in Seattle.]] ((NARRATOR)) In the borrowed kitchen, she begins to get her life back. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Destroyed by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “I am an endocrinologist and blogger, and my routine — what keeps me afloat — is firstly good nutrition. So, I started preparing my vitamin salad again, which is familiar to my subscribers”. [[RADIO VERSION: Opanasenko says she is an endocrinologist and blogger, and her routine — what keeps her afloat — is firstly good nutrition. So, she started preparing her vitamin salad again, which is familiar to her subscribers.]] ((NARRATOR)) She plans to open a private practice soon and is determined to have a better life. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Destroyed by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR))) “I also understood that before, I just worked and tried to be useful. I didn't allow myself much. And now I have decided that I don't have to live like this”. [[RADIO VERSION: Opanasenko says that before the attack, she just worked and tried to be useful. She didn't allow herself much. But now she has decided that she doesn't have to live like that.]] ((NARRATOR)) She treats herself to a manicure, returning to her old neighborhood to support a local beauty salon also damaged by the shelling. ((Lyudmyla Opanasenko, Home Destroyed by Shelling (FEMALE, UKR)) “The girls from the salon supported me a lot, and I want to help their business in this way, too”. [[RADIO VERSION: Opanasenko says that the girls from the salon supported her a lot, and that she wants to help their business in return.]] ((NARRATOR)) As for Opanasenko’s apartment building, local authorities are optimistic that it could be rebuilt in about a year. Lesia Bakalets, VOA news, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Network VOA
- Location (dateline) Kyiv
- Embargo Date January 25, 2024 15:37 EST
- Byline Lesia Bakalets
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English