(18 Jun 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv, Ukraine - 18 June 2022
1. Wide of mourners outside St. Michael's Cathedral
HEADLINE TEXT: Hundreds attend funeral of noted activist in Kyiv
2. Various of service for activist Roman Ratushnyi, coffin, priests
ANNOTATION: Hundreds of mourners gathered in Kyiv on Saturday for the funeral of a well-known activist who took up arms against Russia's invasion.
3. Various of mourners
ANNOTATION: Mourners for Roman Ratushnyi, 24, included friends who had protested with him during demonstrations that toppled Ukraine's pro-Russia leader in 2014.
ANNOTATION: The arc of his shortened life symbolized that of Ukraine's post-independence generations that are sacrificing their best years in the cause of freedom.
4. Various of Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko at service
ANNOTATION: First, with defiance and lives against police during Ukraine's Maidan protests of 2013-2014 and now with weapons and lives against Russian troops.
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Myroslava Barchuk, friend of Ratushnyi: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"Russia, this Russian matrix (way) of thinking, culture, values - it is wrong, and it is deadly, dangerous for us. And this is Roman's testament - get rid of this matrix, fight it."
6. Various of people with flowers, people kneeling and placing flowers next to coffin ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS, UPCOMING SOUNDBITES++
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleh Nikyforov, friend of Ratushnyi: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"He was Indigo (referring to a spiritual concept, meaning he was special). Roman is the generation that is the future of Ukraine. Those people who think and do not live by patterns, (established) standards, understand what is right and wrong. It is not worth comparing and equating with the Soviet world or anything else. This is another dimension."
8. Pallbearers in military uniforms carrying coffin and placing it in hearse
ANNOTATION: "Heroes never die!" friends, family and admirers shouted as Ratushnyi's coffin was loaded aboard a hearse on a square in the Ukrainian capital.
9. Various of funeral procession
ANNOTATION: The square now decorated with destroyed Russian tanks and vehicles.
ANNOTATION: From the square, the hundreds of mourners then walked in a silent column behind his coffin to Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square.
9. Framed portrait of Rutushnyi
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of mourners gathered in Kyiv on Saturday for the funeral of a well-known activist who took up arms against Russia's invasion.
The mourners for Roman Ratushnyi, 24, included friends who had protested with him during months of demonstrations that toppled Ukraine's pro-Russia leader in 2014 and who, like him, defended Ukraine after Moscow's invasion.
The arc of his shortened life symbolized that of Ukraine's post-independence generations that are sacrificing their best years in the cause of freedom.
First, with defiance and dozens of lives against brutal riot police during Ukraine's Maidan protests of 2013-2014 and now with weapons and even more lives against Russian troops.
"Heroes never die!" friends, family and admirers shouted in Ukrainian as Ratushnyi's coffin was loaded aboard a hearse on a square in the Ukrainian capital, now decorated with destroyed Russian tanks and vehicles.
Their charred hulks contrasted with the shiny gold domes of an adjacent cathedral where priests had earlier sung prayers for Ratushnyi, who was well-known in Kyiv for his civic and environmental activism.
AP Video shot by Oleksandr Stashevskyi
Production: Julian Styles
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