(5 Aug 2025)
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Ivankovychi, Kyiv region, Ukraine – 5 August 2025
1. Wide of four coffins in the church, lady laying flowers on them
2. Wide of people laying flowers on coffins
3. Close of Olena Stetsiuk (right) hugging a woman
4. Mid of the priest walking with censer and singing funeral song
5. Mid of members of family crossing themself with their hands
6. Wide of four crosses standing near church
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Stetsiuk, Nataliia Haiova’s cousin:
“She was very kind. Roman, or Romashka, as we called him, was very cheerful. He was always the loudest. And Roman had the brightest laugh. Vlad was such a serious romantic, very, very serious. But he was a very, very romantic, very romantic boy. He wrote songs and composed poems. He played the guitar and harmonica very well. He and his girlfriend were planning to move into an apartment in two months.”
8. Wide of funeral car driving out of church yard
9. Wide of people in the procession, walking away from church with crosses
10. Wide of men taking coffins out of cars
11. Wide of four coffins lying in the front and people standing in the background; Dmytro Haiovyi (husband of Nataliia Haiova) speaking in the microphone, saying (Ukrainian): “I want to say that I will love you for my whole life, and you will be in my heart forever.”
12. Mid of people standing near coffins
13. Mid of Anhelina Savchenko, Vladyslav Haiovyi’s girlfriend and other people bid farewell to the deceased
14. Mid of Nataliia Haiova’s mother mourning
15. Wide of men putting coffin in the grave
16. Mid of Anhelina Savchenko crying and Olena Stetsiuk comforting her
17. Wide of priest singing a funeral song
18. Wide of people throwing earth into graves
19. Mid of Anhelina Savchenko throwing earth into a grave
20. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Anhelina Savchenko, Vladyslav Haiovyi’s girlfriend:
“They were very close to me. Some people say that eight years is not very long, but we bonded very strongly. We planned to get married after we moved in together, but unfortunately, we didn’t have time. We wanted to become one big family. Well, I’m already part of their family, even without a wedding ring. It doesn’t matter anymore.”
21. Various of men filling grave with shovels
STORYLINE:
Dozens of people gathered on Monday in Ivankovychi, a village outside Kyiv, to bury four members of the Haiovyi family – a mother and her two sons, along with her brother – all killed during a Russian missile strike on July 31.
Natalia Haiova, a kindergarten teacher, had returned to her native village three years ago.
On the night of the attack, she was staying at her mother’s apartment in Kyiv with her middle son, Roman, and eldest son, Vladyslav.
All three, along with Natalia’s brother, were killed when a missile destroyed the rooms they were in.
“She was very kind. Roman always laughed the loudest. And Vlad – he was a romantic. He wrote poems, played guitar and harmonica. He and his girlfriend were about to move in together,” said Olena Stetsiuk, Natalia’s cousin and Roman’s godmother.
The procession walked from the village church to the cemetery, accompanied by funeral chants.
At the gravesite, mourners gave speeches.
“They were very close to me. Some people say that eight years is not very long, but we bonded very strongly,” said Angelina Savchenko, Vladyslav’s girlfriend.
The couple was planning to get married after moving in together in an apartment in Kyiv.
"We wanted to become one big family. Well, I’m already part of their family, even without a wedding ring. It doesn’t matter anymore."
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