(30 Nov 2024)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 30 November 2024
1. Various of people lighting flares during funeral ceremony for Ukrainian officer Pavlo Vedybida aka "Obolonchik" on Independence Square
2. Wide of people carrying banner reading “Pavlo "Obolonchik" Vedybida 13.07.90 – 13.11.24”
3. Various shots of relatives bidding farewell to Vedybida
4. Wide of Honor Guards holding national flag
5. Various shots of Honor Guards carrying portrait and coffin during funeral ceremony
6. Various shots of people kneeling during farewell ceremony near the Obolon Stadium
7. Various shots of Honor Guards carrying portrait and coffin
8. Various shots of people lighting flares
9. Wide of of Honor Guards carrying portrait and coffin
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Chupa (name is not given because of security reasons), friend of Pavlo Vedybida aka "Obolonchik":
“He was the heart, the core, the backbone. He was an energetic leader, he was simply a leader. He was the one who decided how to do it, organizational issues. Everything was based on him. We all loved him very much. He was a very strong man. When everything started in 2014, he was one of the first to join the army. At first, he didn’t join the Right Sector, he wanted to join another branch of the Armed Forces, but he ended up in the Right Sector. He was a very good man, very strong, very tough. We loved him very much.”
11. Wide of of Honor Guards carrying coffin in the cemetery
12. Wide of Honor Guards preparing flag to give to the family
13. Mid of Honor Guard presenting National flag
14. Wide of chaplain of 112th brigade Roman says last words speaks to the people during funeral ceremony in the cemetery
15. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) chaplain of 112th brigade, Roman:
“Pavlo, he is moving on. The 112th Brigade has no former vets. Never and nowhere. They move from one service to another. He has a new task, and he will fulfill it with honor. And this task consists of only one thing – to hold heaven for us. And I thank his parents, of course. But I also thank him for his earthly service. And I ask for the heavenly one.”
16. Wide of chaplain
17. Various of people saying last goodbyes near the coffin
18. Close up of chaplain
19. Wide of relatives crying over coffin
20. Wide of funeral workers moving coffin into ground
21. Mid of relatives crying
22. Wide of people lightning flares
23. Various shots of relatives throwing a handful of earth into the grave
STORYLINE:
A large crowd turned out for the Kiev funeral, Saturday, of a Ukrainian officer who was killed earlier this month.
People lit yellow and blue flares for Pavlo Vedybida, known, aka “Obolonchyk”, who was described as a popular officer.
A soldier who served with him described him as "the heart, the core, the backbone."
"He was a very good man, very strong, very tough. We loved him very much.”
Vedybida, 34, served with the 112th Brigade and was a veteran of the Russian Ukraine war since 2014.
He was killed in a small arms battle near Chasiv Yar on November 13, 2024.
AP video by Alex Babenko
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