(15 Mar 2024)
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++PLEASE NOTE, CONTAINS PROFANITY IN SOUNDBITE IN SHOT 9++
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Kolomyya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine – 13 February 2024
1. Vyacheslav Ryabkov standing in street
2. Close of Ryabkov’s face
3. Rain and puddles on street
4. Ryabkov rubbing face
5. Close of scar on Ryabkov’s arm after Russian soldiers cut him with a knife
6. Ryabkov sitting in café
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vyacheslav Ryabkov, 42, displaced person from Kherson region:
“We got direct threats like ‘if you don’t get a Russian passport, we can ride in the car and throw a grenade at your window; If you work in the garden, we will drive by on a stolen moped or in a car and we can fire a burst of machine gun fire at you; if you don’t get Russian passports you won’t be able to go to the store, anywhere, complete isolation in your home.’ Indeed, there were cases when they threw grenades at the window at night when people were sleeping and resting.”
VYACHESLAV RYABKOV
Kherson region – December 2023
8. STILL image of Ryabkov after he was beaten by Russians (December 2023, courtesy of Vyacheslav Ryabkov)
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Kolomyya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine – 13 February 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vyacheslav Ryabkov, 42, displaced person from Kherson region:
“I was already lying unconscious, they beat me on the street for about two hours. Mom said she heard one soldier say to another, ‘Well, let’s finish him off, f*** him’. Mom had already run to me and started shouting ‘Who are you going to kill?’ They (Russian soldiers) answered ‘this is a saboteur from the right bank,’ and my mother said ‘here is his passport, your Russian passport, he is a local person’. They said ‘woman, get out of here’ and pointed the machine gun at my mother.”
10. Two shots of Ryabkov walking past portraits of fallen Ukrainian soldiers
11. Close of portrait of fallen soldier
12. People walking in the street
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vyacheslav Ryabkov, 42, displaced person from Kherson region:
“When I already saw our yellow-blue flag, I started to cry, and when I saw our guys, with Ukrainian flags, the first thing I shouted was “Glory to Ukraine!” Then I realized that we were already in Ukraine.”
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ARCHIVE: Berdyansk, Ukraine – 11 August 2022
14. Tilt down from poster with woman holding Russian passport to a woman filling out an application
15. Close of application being filled out
16. Mid of people inside the Interior Ministry’s passport office
17. Pan of representative of the Interior Ministry office addressing people who are receiving Russian passports
UPSOUND (Russian):
“Are you receiving citizenship of the Russian Federation voluntarily?”
“Yes.”
“Without pressure?”
“Yes.”
18. Mid of seal of the Russian Federation and portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin hanging on the wall
19. Mid of people reading oath with Russian anthem playing
20. Mid of Russian passports being handed out
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Kolomyya, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine – 13 February 2024
21. Various of displaced mother of 9 children Natalia Zhyvohliad going into her family’s temporary container house
22. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia Zhyvohliad, 50, displaced person from Zaporizhzhia region:
“If we had not submitted Russian documents, we would have faced deportation. As they said, ‘the children will go to an orphanage, to the boarding school, and you will be deported to the territory of Ukraine.’ This is what they threatened us with, the police themselves told me so. And the older boys would have been taken straight away to be ‘cannon fodder’.”
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