(15 Apr 2025)
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Sumy, Ukraine – 15 April 2025
1. Various of family members and co-workers mourning at the coffin of pianist Olena Kohut who was killed in the Palm Sunday attack among 35 civilian people in Sumy
2. Mid of portrait of Olena Kohut
3. Various of people mourning at the funeral ceremony of pianist Olena Kohut
4. Wide of crowd mourning at the funeral ceremony of pianist Olena Kohut
5. Mid of family members and co-workers mourning at the coffin of pianist Olena Kohut
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Serhii Dorofieiev, Director of the Sumy National Academic Theater, where Olena worked:
“For the entire Sumy musical community, not only Sumy, but the Ukrainian community in general, this is a very big loss, because there are very few performers who are really so talented and, first of all, so professionally skilled, and Mrs. Olena could really be classified as a virtuoso, a true master of her craft. Sumy region lost a lot with her. It is unlikely that we will be able to replenish this loss in the near future.”
7. Various of people holding flowers and clapping in memory and respect to pianist Olena Kohut
8. Various of people walking to the professional arts college
9. Mid of workers carrying the coffin of Olena Kohut to the professional arts college
10. Various of mother mourning at the coffin of pianist Olena Kohut
11. Various of people mourning at the funeral ceremony of pianist Olena Kohut
12. Wide of workers carrying the coffin of Olena Kohut to the car
13. Various of people applauding as the sign of memory and respect to pianist Olena Kohut
14. Various of people laying flowers a few meters from the place where Olena’s Kohut body was found on the site of Russian missile attack
15. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Vadym Kohut, 59, Olena’s husband:
“She was an open person, a real woman with a great soul. She was, I’m not afraid to say it, a saint, she was superior, but she never put herself up or glorified herself. She was very humble. She always came to the rescue, did not take offense at the insults that came in her direction from the hovering, from evil people. She was able to turn all this into good positive energy, into energy that created. Loss. There are no words to express the feelings that exist, they cannot be expressed in words.”
16. Close of memorial a few meters from the place where Olena’s Kohut body was found on the site of Russian missile attack
17. Various shots of women placing ribbon as sign of memory to pianist Olena Kohut
STORYLINE:
In Sumy, the farewell ceremony for pianist Olena Kohut who was killed in the Palm Sunday attack was held in the local theatre where she worked and often played.
Dozens came to say their final farewells to the gifted musician and piano teacher, who was killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack while on her way to rehearsals.
“Loss," Olena’s husband Vadym Kohut said to The Associated Press, "there are no words to express the feelings that exist, they cannot be expressed in words.”
Kohut was a solo organist at the regional philharmonic, a member of the orchestra at the local theatre and a lecturer at a professional arts college. The crowd clapped until her coffin was driven away.
“For the entire Sumy musical community, not only Sumy, but the Ukrainian community in general, this is a very big loss, because there are very few performers who are really so talented," said Serhiy Dorofieiev, the director of the theater where Olena worked.
"Mrs. Olena could really be classified as a virtuoso, a true master of her craft," he added.
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