(8 Jan 2023)
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Bohorodychne, Donetsk region - 7 January 2023
1. Aerial shot of destroyed church ++MUTE++
2. Various of destroyed church
3. Wide of house
4. Wide of toy on burnt car
5. Wide of resident Mykola Honchar near his destroyed house
6. Mid of Mykola Honchar walking near his destroyed house, UPSOUND (Ukrainian): "I had a contusion two times and was injured two times. I took out shrapnel from my body."
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Mykola Honchar, 58-year-old, Bohorodychne resident:
"If I experienced such a thing, what should I do next? I didn't go anywhere. I was under the machine gun. They (Russians) captured me, bitch."
8. Wide of Honchar's destroyed house
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Mykola Honchar, 58-year-old, Bohorodychne resident:
"What are the Russians? They are 'liberators'. Who did they come here to liberate? They are stupid. They shelled the church. I asked: 'What are you doing?' They asked: 'What?' I said: 'You know what kind of church is this? This is a monastery of the Moscow Patriarchate. Why did you destroy the church?' They looked like sheep at each other."
10. Mid of destroyed house
11. Resident Nina Honchar sitting inside dark room in destroyed house
12. Mid of oven in room
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nina Honchar, 91-year-old, Bohorodychne resident:
"That's how we live. Where to go? To whom? My son was killed."
14. Wide of damaged ceiling
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nina Honchar, 91-year-old, Bohorodychne resident:
"There is no pension. I don't know how to get it. I would buy fish or sausages or bread."
16. Close of cat
17. Various of Mykola Honchar walking through street
18. Wide of Mykola Honchar going to grave of his brother Vasyl and his brother's wife Lyubov
19. Mid of Mykola Honchar looking at grave, UPSOUND (Ukrainian): "Let they lie here."
20. Various of destroyed house
STORYLINE:
In the village of Bohorodychne within Ukraine's Donetsk region, there are almost no surviving houses left.
The remaining residents spent Orthodox Christmas on Saturday in their destroyed homes with limited electricity and water.
Among them was the Honchar family, 91-year-old Nina and her 58-year-old son Mykola.
They were in the village during the fighting and it's Russian occupation.
”I was under the machine gun. They (Russians) captured me,” said Mykola Honchar, of his time during the occupation.
Before the start of the full-scale war, hundreds of people lived in the village, while now only around 10 residents remain.
Mykola Honchar's brother Vasyl and his brother's wife Lyubov died in their house during the shelling.
Honchar said he buried them and their neighbour by himself.
In the centre of the town lies a destroyed women's monastery, which Mykola Honchar recalls seeing the Russians shooting at from tanks.
"What are you doing?" he recalled asking the Russian soldiers.
"I said, 'You know what kind of church is this?' This is a monastery of the Moscow Patriarchate. Why did you destroy the church?' They looked like sheep at each other," Honchar said.
The Honchar family didn't celebrate Christmas on Saturday.
Instead Mykola Honchar went to visit the graves of his brother and his brother's wife, as he stood amid by the destroyed town.
"Let they lie here," he said.
AP video shot by Vasilisa Stepanenko
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