(25 Apr 2025)
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Kharkiv, Ukraine – 25 April 2025
1. Wide of a damaged building and park
2. Wide of people walking, soldier Dmytro Buhaiyov using crutches
3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Dmytro ‘Gvozdik’ Buhaiov, Ukrainian soldier:
“I don’t support it (Donald Trump’s statement on Crimea) because I have a lot of friends from Crimea who want to return home to Ukrainian Crimea, not Russian Crimea. I also have relatives in the Zaporizhzhia region, and they (politicians) say to give these territories away. Well, what politicians want is one thing, but the guys (soldiers) don’t want it, and the guys will not allow it. We have already sacrificed too many of our very best people, so to close our eyes to this and just turn around? I think that we will show weakness to the extreme, and I don’t think we will ever do that.”
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia Razuvaeva, Lecturer:
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“I have no clear opinion on this, because we are already used to the occupation of Crimea. The only thing I want is to stop all these killings, explosions, crying. Half the city has been destroyed, I’m talking about my city of Kharkiv. Just yesterday, there was a missile attack behind my house, and I realized once again that life is a moment, and you just have to thank God and appreciate this life every minute, every hour, every month and every year.”
5. Woman taking photos of children near Easter decorations
6. Mid of children on roller skates in park
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Maksym Dudchenko, student:
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“By recognizing Crimea as Russian and the rest of the territories under de facto Russian control, it will lead to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin wanting Riga in three days, which will be much easier than Kyiv in 30 years, and so on and so forth. China will want Taiwan. There will be global chaos — (U.S. Donald) Trump will not last forever, he will die, but new generations will have to unravel this new order.”
8. Bus departing, traffic in street
STORYLINE:
Residents in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv reacted on Friday to a statement made by U.S. President Donald Trump where he said Crimea would "stay with Russia."
“I don’t support it,” said Dmytro Buhaiov, a 31-year-old soldier who has been fighting in the Ukrainian army since 2014.
“I have many friends from Crimea who want to return to Ukrainian Crimea, not Russian Crimea.”
Kharkiv, just 40 kilometers from the Russian border, has been on the front line since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022.
On Thursday, a Russian missile struck near the home of Natalia Razuvaeva, a 49-year-old lecturer.
“We are already used to the occupation of Crimea,” she said. “The only thing I want is to stop all these killings and explosions.”
Maksym Dudchenko, a 21-year-old student, believes that recognizing Crimea as Russian would set a dangerous precedent for the world.
“There will be global chaos,” he said.
“Trump will not last forever, he will die, but new generations will have to unravel this new order.”
Trump said in an interview published Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia”, the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to end the conflict while it remains under siege.
Trump made the comments in a Time magazine interview conducted Tuesday.
He’s been accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of prolonging the conflict by resisting negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
AP video by Oleksii Yeroshenko
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