(4 Mar 2025)
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Kharkiv, Ukraine – 4 March 2025
1. Mid of Kharkiv street
2. Mid of street with windows of a shop covered
3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Nadiya Dashko, 20, student:
“Personally, for us Ukrainians, this seems like a very bad decision. Our lives depend on this, on the amount of this weaponry. This is our defense. I don’t even know. It’s a highly manipulative move, as if we are being resisted in our efforts to protect our own people. It’s strange, and really bad. Even from a moral standpoint."
4. Mid of Kharkiv park
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Larysa Zhalnina, utility service worker:
“It’s hard to say what will happen. I hope they will smooth out this conflict that arose in the Oval Office. It’s definitely unfair. Honestly, it’s really unfair. Over a suit? That’s just ridiculous, really. I don’t know. I thought things would get better, but.. it would be better if he (U.S. President Donald Trump) delivers (military aid)."
6. Mid church
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Kukurudza, pensioner:
"It feels like a reminder of the 1930s, when fascists unexpectedly came to power through democratic means. They were supported by a large part of the population, which led to what we had in those years, World War II. Now, this is a blow not just to Ukraine, but to the entire civilized world. But what I read in the comments from MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, American ‘Trumpists,’ ‘America First’ and similar groups — there is a completely changed focus. A country that became a victim of an aggressor is being portrayed in the world as a terrible country that started the war."
8. Mid of Kharkiv street
STORYLINE:
Residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv were dismayed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pause military aid to Ukraine.
Days after an explosive meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump ordered the assistance halted in a bid to pressure Kyiv to engage in peace talks with Russia.
"It’s a highly manipulative move, as if we are being resisted in our efforts to protect our own people," said 20-year-old Nadiya Dashko, a student from Kharkiv.
She added that her life, along with many Ukrainians, depend on U.S. military aid.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kharkiv has come under constant Russian shelling.
Many fear that the U.S. decision will leave the country more vulnerable to a Russian offensive.
Pensioner Volodymyr Kukurudz renounced what he said was a narrative where Ukraine is "being portrayed to the world as a terrible country that started the war".
The pause in U.S. aid isn’t expected to have an immediate impact on the battlefield.
Ukrainian forces have slowed Russian advances along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, especially in the fiercely contested Donetsk region some 700 kilometers (400 miles) east of Kyiv.
The Russian onslaught has been costly in troops and armor but hasn’t brought a strategically significant breakthrough for the Kremlin.
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