(6 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv, Ukraine – 6 March 2025
1. Wide of prisoners of war and lost soldiers families protesting near U.S. embassy in Kyiv
2. Closeup of a woman with a poster reading (English): "My husband also wants to be at home"
3. Wide of prisoners of war families protesting
4. Closeup of a woman with a poster reading (English): "Captivity kills"
5. Wide of organizers of the protest, families of POWs and released from Russian captivity soldier reading appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump
6. Closeup of a woman whose husband is in Russian captivity reads an appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump UPSOUND (English): "It is deeply painful for tens of thousands of Ukrainian families that had lost contact with their loved ones."
7. Various of POW’s families listening to the appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump
8. Closeup of a sign on the building reading (English): "Embassy of the United States of America"
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Natalia Epifanova, head of the NGO "Voyatsky Vyzvil", organizer of the protest, aunt of released from Russian captivity Ukrainian soldier:
"The purpose of our action today is to appeal to the President of the United States of America, and once again call on the USA, the leader of the democratic and free world, that a just peace can be built on justice. Only on the fact that criminals are punished. Peace cannot be built on ignoring the war crimes that Russia is committing against Ukrainian prisoners of war. Therefore, today we came out with such an appeal, if Russia is ready for peace talks, let it demonstrate its readiness for these talks, releasing the exhausted Ukrainian prisoners of war."
10. Closeup of the text of appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump
11. Various of POWs’ families signs appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump
12. Various of POWs’ families protesting
13. Mid of Tetiana Rossina standing with a portrait of her son Oleksandr who was lost in Mariupol in April 2022
14. Closeup of a portrait of Oleksandr Rossin
15. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian), Tetiana Rossina, mother of lost Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Rossin:
"This is already a cry of the soul. 35 months of hell. I just want to scream and I don’t know how, so that they find and return my child. I’ve been searching everywhere myself, at all levels, at actions, for 35 months. I’ve just been searching on my own, but I want the authorities to find and return my son."
16. Wide of Olha Tyshenko standing with a portrait of her lost son Ukrainian volunteer soldier Ivan Martyniuk
17. Closeup of a portrait of Ivan Martyniuk
18. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian), Olha Tyshenko, mother of lost Ukrainian soldier Ivan Martyniuk:
"Today, near the US embassy, I want to call not only ours, but also the American authorities, to facilitate their (POWs) return. Because the boys are being tortured there, they are not getting enough to eat. They defended their homeland and to simply assume that they simply disappeared, to turn a blind eye to this, is to sympathize with the same crimes. I want our American friends to also think about the fact that these are someone’s children."
19. Closeup of a woman with a poster reading (English): "God Bless America All-for-all Exchange Without Exceptions"
20. Various of POWs and lost soldiers families protesting
STORYLINE:
On Thursday dozens of families of Ukrainian prisoners of war and lost soldiers protested near the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv calling on U.S. President Donald Trump to push Russia to exchange POWs.
Prisoners of war families have signed an appeal to Donald Trump to help them to bring their loved ones home.
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