(11 Mar 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 11 March 2025
1. Wide of Kyiv’s Independence Square
2. Wide of church tower
3. Ukrainian national flag flying over the buildings
4. Pedestrians
5. Soldiers Oleksandr and Radyk sitting on a bench
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Radyk (no last name given), Ukrainian soldier with amputated feet:
"How could I agree with any compromise after what they have done? They (the Russians) come here to kill. And they would continue to kill us, to try to kill us. No matter how the negotiations end, we have to show Russians where their place is. Otherwise, the war would go on. I will never forgive Russia for what it did.”
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr (no last name given), Ukrainian soldier:
"If there is a ceasefire, it would only give Russia time to increase its firepower, manpower, missiles, and other arms. Then they would attack Ukraine again. So we simply cannot speak about decreasing our defense or making any compromises over our territory.”
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Radyk (no last name given), Ukrainian soldier with amputated feet:
"If Russia remains unpunished, they will proceed to kill us and or attack other countries as well.”
9. Focus pull from Independence Square to a ribbon with Ukrainian national colors
10. Tilt up to a picture of fallen soldier at memorial site
11. Various of Ukrainians looking at memorial
12. Close of a flower
13. Pan of women walking at memorial
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lena Herasymenko, psychologist, Kyiv resident:
"We had massive losses during this war and we don’t know yet how many more we’ll have. That’s why I think we have to make some kind of compromise in order to end this. We are suffering every day. Our kids are suffering and we don’t know how the future generation will be affected. We will have to rebuild this country. So I think we have to make a compromise. But a reasonable one.”
15. Wide of women walking at memorial site
16. Mid of picture of a fallen soldier
17. Mid of a woman
18. Focus pull from Ukrainian flags to candles
19. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ihor Piddubniy, small business owner, Kyiv resident:
"Ukraine has already compromised over Donbas and Crimea. And now America forces us to make compromises on other territories. The talks are about this. But there is no sign of making a compromise on the Russian side.”
20. Tilt down from the Independence Square column to U.S. flag
21. Mid of U.S. flag
22. Tilt up from people walking to column on Independence Square
STORYLINE:
Ukrainians in Kyiv expressed mixed feelings about talks that kicked off Tuesday between Ukraine and the United States on how to end Russia’s three-year war.
The talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah come after President Donald Trump paused U.S. military aid to Ukraine last week, along with some intelligence sharing, in an attempt to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in negotiations to end the war against Russia.
In Kyiv, Radyk, a 22-year-old Ukrainian soldier who lost both of his feet said he was opposed to any compromise.
"How could I agree with any compromise after what they have done? They come here to kill," he told the Associated Press.
"No matter how the negotiations end, we have to show Russians where their place is,” said the soldier, who did not give his surname.
His comrade Oleksandr, who also declined to give his last name, said he expected Russia to take advantage of any ceasefire to rearm.
"Then they would attack Ukraine again," he said.
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