(29 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv - 29 June 2024
1. Various of friends and relatives waiting at the airport for the arrival of ten Ukrainians who were held prisoners in Russia and were recently released
2. Released Ukrainians arriving at the airport lobby. UPSOUND (Ukrainian): “Glory to Ukraine” and “Glory to heroes.”
3. People hugging
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Bohdan Heleta, released prisoner:
“There are a lot of our men. I have already said this, and girls and women are there. They need help, concrete help. They are waiting for this help. I also ask the world, the world to react even more.”
5. Various of released prisoners signing the Ukrainian national flag
6. Wide of Medics checking the health of Ivan Levytskyi
STORYLINE:
Ten Ukrainians who had been held prisoner for years were released from Russian captivity with the mediation of the Vatican on Friday and arrived in Kyiv on Saturday.
Part of the group arrived overnight by helicopter at Kyiv International Airport, which has been closed since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
It was the first time in over two years the airport received passengers. The rest of the group arrived by bus.
Some of the released civilians had been captured before Russia’s invasion.
It’s a rare occasion when people detained after 2014, when Russia illegally annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, were released.
In the main hall of the airport, where pre-war advertisements still hang, former prisoners wrapped in blue and yellow flags reunited with their families and called those who couldn’t be there.
Two priests were also among those who returned Friday.
One of them, Bohdan Heleta, was detained in 2022 inside his church in the occupied city of Berdiansk in the Zaporizhzhia region.
“There are a lot of our men. I have already said this, and girls and women are there. They need help, concrete help,” Heleta said.
According to Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 3,310 Ukrainians have already been released from Russian captivity.
But many thousands, both civilians and military personnel, remain imprisoned.
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