(25 Apr 2025)
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Kyiv – 25 April 2025
1. Various of people laying flowers in memory of the 12 people who were killed in a Thursday Russian strike on residential neighborhood
2. Various of friends of Danylo Hudya, 17, who was killed strike, gathering together at the remains of a house
3. Wide of the rescue workers working on a site of residential building destroyed in strike
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Danylo Bondarchuk, 18, friend of Danylo Hudya, 17, who was killed in Thursday’s Russian strike:
“When I ran here, because there was smoke from the other side, I couldn’t see anything. I saw that there was rubble, it was terrible. I ran here and was stopped by the State Emergency Service, they said I couldn’t come here. I started to get hysterical because, well, my friend was under the rubble. And from three o’clock AM until four or five PM, I was here, I didn’t leave, I was waiting for information, running back and forth, asking how it was, what was going on. Then, unfortunately, we were told that Danylo had been pulled out, but he was dead. Right at that place, 50 young people, all his friends, relatives, and acquaintances came here. We waited and waited, but unfortunately, that’s happened.”
5. Various of memorial
6. Various of ambulance workers closing ambulance door and preparing to leave
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Kostiantyn Bychek, 35, injured during Russian strike:
“I don’t see that negotiations are going to end anytime soon. If one (Putin) wanted peace, one would not shoot – that’s right. As soon as there are negotiations, there is shelling. And every time it gets tougher and tougher, there is shelling. More and more people are dying, civilians. There, (U.S. President Donald) Trump says it’s a mistake. I was told that it was a mistake. So come and tell those people, all the people who died, that this was a mistake.”
8. Wide of hospital corridor
9. Various of Kostiantyn Bychek, 35, using his phone
10. Various of Bychek showing his wounds, UPSOUND (Ukrainian) “Look, most of them are on the head, of course, but also on the chest, and here, and on the back, and the (skin on the) neck was torn, big wounds. It’s enough.”
STORYLINE:
Mourners gathered at a makeshift memorial on Friday at the site of a Russian missile attack that killed at least 12 people in Kyiv.
Russia pounded Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones Thursday, killing at least 12 people in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since July and drawing a rare rebuke of Moscow from U.S. President Donald Trump just as peace efforts were coming to a head.
The attack kept residents on edge for about 11 hours, with many staying awake all night while loud explosions reverberated around the city and flashes of light punctuated the sky.
Families gathered in public air-raid shelters, some of them bringing cats and dogs.
The strikes that began around 1 a.m. hit at least five neighborhoods and heavily damaged multiple residential buildings. Around 90 people were wounded.
On Friday, friends and family of the victims visited the site of the attack to lay flowers near a residential building, which was destroyed.
Many teenagers visited to say a last goodbye to their friend, 17-year-old Danylo Hudya, who was killed together with his mother and father in a strike.
At least 87 people were injured in the attack, dozens of them are still recovering in hospitals.
35-year-old Kostiantyn Bychek sustained multiple injuries.
AP Video shot by Alex Babenko
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