(30 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukraine, exact location unknown – 30 December 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of bus driving carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) after exchange
2. Wide of Ukrainian prisoners of war getting off bus, zoom in to deputy commander of Azov brigade Svyatoslav Palamar meeting Mariupol defender after more than two years in Russian captivity
3. Close of Ukrainian POWs getting off bus
4. Mid of mother crying and hugging her son
5. Close of woman crying and hugging her released relative
6. Woman kissing her husband
7. Wide of serviceman running to his family
8. Various of serviceman hugging and kissing his family
9. Wide of Ukrainian servicemen shaking hands
10. Various of servicemen posing for photos
11. Wide of woman hugging her husband
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yevhen (no surname given), Ukrainian serviceman:
"I feel shocked. I don’t know how to describe it. My whole body is full of goosebumps. It was very unexpected. I simply have no words."
13. Ukrainian serviceman meeting other serviceman who was in captivity with him
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Oleksandr Hlyshenko, Ukrainian serviceman:
"I’m euphoric, I don’t really understand that I’m already free, although I’ve waited every minute, and my family waited. Honestly, I thought it would never come free, and today is the second birthday of my life. From today everything will begin anew, everything from a new page. Unfortunately, the city (Mariupol) is lost, my hometown is no longer there, in which I lived for 40 years, but my family remain alive."
15. Wide of couple
STORYLINE:
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 189 prisoners of war each on Monday, according to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Among them are soldiers captured by Russian forces from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, Snake island and other parts of the front line.
Also among them were two civilians captured by Russia.
Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram that the United Arab Emirates had again mediated the exchange.
The POW swap was the 59th since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.
The country’s Coordination Headquarters for POWs said 3,956 people, both civilians and military, have returned from Russian captivity since the outbreak of the war, including 1,358 people in 2024.
Kateryna Lіashchenko, the wife of Yevhen, a Ukrainian soldier, has been waiting for her husband since he surrendered along with other Mariupol defenders who were in Azovstal on May 17, 2022.
She stayed in the city, waiting for news from her husband, surviving the siege and occupation of the city.
Yevhen was one of the Ukrainian soldiers who survived the explosions two years ago in the Russian-held barracks in Olenivka.
"I feel shocked. I don’t know how to describe it. My whole body is full of goosebumps. It was very unexpected. I simply have no words", said Yevhen.
Mariupol defender Oleksandr Hlyshenko was in captivity for more than two years.
He waited for his release "every minute" and he called the day of the exchange his "second birthday."
"Unfortunately, the city (Mariupol) is lost, my hometown is no longer there, in which I lived for 40 years, but my family remain alive", Hlyshenko said.
AP Video by Vasilisa Stepanenko
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