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UKRAINE / DISPLACED WINTER
STORY: UKRAINE / DISPLACED WINTER
TRT: 2:52
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24, 25 NOVEMBER 2016, MARYINKA CROSSING POINT, VILLAGES OF NEVELSKOYE, SEVERNOE, AND KRASNOHORLIVKA, UKRAINE
24, 25 NOVEMBER 2016, MARYINKA CROSSING POINT, UKRAINE
1. Wide of Cars queuing at Maryinka checkpoint in eastern Ukraine
2. Med shot, people queuing in the cold
3. Wide shot, woman pulling her luggage
4. Med shot, People queuing
5. Wide shot, people queuing
6. Close up, girl holding hot drink in the queue
7. Close up, frozen tree branches
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alla, Local resident:
“Look at these people. They’re disabled, they’re old, standing in line. I saw people yesterday walking with crutches. Just come and see in winter. Nothing will change. Crowds will line up, waiting until they cross.”
24, 25 NOVEMBER 2016, NEVELSKOYE VILLAGE, UKRAINE
9. Wide shot, house
10. Med shot, damaged glass of house
11. Wide shot, damaged house
12. Med shot, great grandmother Ludmila walking towards her house
13. Close up, bullet holes in wall
14. Med shot, Ludmila entering her daughter-in-law’s house to inspect fuel, points to briquettes donated to them by NGO, Caritas
15. Close up, briquettes
16. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ludmila, local resident:
“This is the first time we received briquets, but of course it won’t be enough for the winter.”
17. Med shot, Ludmila walks thorugh the house to see her daughter in law
18. Med shot, daughter in law, Natalia, holds up photos showing damage done to her grandchildren’s room.
19. Close up, photos showing damage
20. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalaia, local resident:
“If we don’t have enough fuel, it’ll be cold inside the house. All the windows are broken.”
21. Med shot, Natalia folding up the family’s clothes
22. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia, local resident:
“We’re OK for clothes. It’s the children who are growing.”
23. Med shot, Natalia opens door to her cellar where the family hide from shelling and the cold
24. Med shot, Natalia enters the cellar
25. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia, local resident:
“If there’s not enough heat, we’ll come here because the room is smaller and it heats up more quickly.”
24, 25 NOVEMBER 2016, SEVERNOE VILLAGE, UKRAINE
26. Various shots, local resident Liuda complaining to a representative of the NGO Proliska because she and others can’t get any money to repair their broken houses
27. Wide shot, destroyed house
28. Med shot, NGO representative listening to locals complaining
29. Med shot, Local standing
30. Various shots, wood on top of stove heater at one of the houses
31. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Sinitsa, local NGO:
“We don’t have it enough and there are still a lot of families left without coal and without anything to heat their houses.”
24, 25 NOVEMBER 2016, KRASNOHORLIVKA TOWN, UKRAINE
32. Med shot, damaged building
33. Wide shot, sign reading: “Stop Mines, don’t touch” and people walking on the field 34. Med shot, steam coming out of chimney from a balcony in a damaged building
35. Wide shot, destroyed building on the frontline
24, 25 NOVEMBER 2016, MARYINKA CROSSING POINT, UKRAINE
36. Various shots, people at crossing point waiting in the cold
Freezing winter temperatures have already arrived in Ukraine. All along the tense line that separates government-controlled territory from the non-government-held area in the east, people in small towns face dire conditions – often living in war-damaged buildings and lacking heat and electricity.
Crossing the line at one of a handful of crossing points can involve a long, cold wait.
Cold, hard waits are a reality at the Maryinka crossing point. Here it can take 7, even 10 hours to go across into the non-government controlled sector. Thousands stand patiently every day, to see relatives, to check damaged houses they’ve had to abandon. But the cold takes its toll.
SOUNDBITE (Russian), Alla, local resident:
“Look at these people. They’re disabled, they’re old, standing in line. I saw people yesterday walking with crutches. Just come and see in winter. Nothing will change. Crowds will line up, waiting until they cross.”
The towns nearby are a portrait of desolation. Houses half-destroyed by shells, bullets and fire. People flee.
In Nevelskoye, just 44 people are left. Ludmila is one. She surveys her winter heat supply for the four generations of family here. Briquettes to burn made of sunflower seeds and husks, supplied by an NGO.
SOUNDBITE (Russian), Ludmila, Local Resident:
“This is the first time we received briquets, but of course it won’t be enough for the winter.”
In the next room, her daughter-in-law Natalia also prepares. A rocket hit the house last year. The photos tell the story. Her three grandchildren were injured when the roof collapsed. The family has repaired two rooms but…
SOUNDBITE (Russian), Natalia, Local Resident:
“If we don’t have enough fuel, it’ll be cold inside the house. All the windows are broken.”
Natalia folds the mountain of winter clothes the family will need. Some have been donated.
SOUNDBITE (Russian), Natalia, Local Resident:
“We’re OK for clothes. It’s the children who are growing.”
The storage cellar in the yard is the refuge for Natalia and her family, often during shelling, and this winter to keep warm.
SOUNDBITE (Russian), Natalia, Local Resident:
“If there’s not enough heat, we’ll come here because the room is smaller and it heats up more quickly.”
Down the road in Severnoe, Liuda complains to a representative of the NGO Proliska that the village seems to have been forgotten. She and others can’t get any money to repair their broken houses.
Proliska works with UNHCR and last year provided 60,000 people with winter assistance. This year so far there’s not enough donated fuel.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Sinitsa, Local NGO:
“We don’t have it enough and there are still a lot of families left without coal and without anything to heat their houses.”
In this landscape of destruction, the forests are mined and people can’t collect wood for fuel. The cold once again becomes an enemy. And, despite their fortitude, many here don’t have the proper weapons to fight it.
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