(1 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dnipropetrovsk region - 21 June 2024
1. Various of Ukrainian prisoners walking on the territory of penal colony
2. Barbed wire
3. Serviceman of Arey Battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, Oleksandr talking to prisoners UPSOUND (Ukrainian): "Here guys, you put an end and start a new life."
4. Oleksandr speaking to prisoners UPSOUND (Ukrainian):
"The main thing is desire, because you are going to defend the Motherland. You won't succeed at 50 percent, you have to give yourself 100 percent, even 150 percent. If everyone gives their best, the goal will be achieved and the tasks will be completed."
5. Prisoner Maksym Kravchenko looking at the serviceman
6. Oleksandr talking to prisoners
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Maksym Kravchenko, 35, prisoner:
"People who want to do it (go to the army), for them I think it's a good idea. Not everyone here is such a criminal as people on the loose think. They are the same guys here who just stumbled and have a great desire to defend their country. Why not give them that opportunity."
8. Various of Ukrainian servicemen doing interview with prisoners who want to mobilize
9. Wide of prisoners having lunch
10. Various of prisoners queuing for food
11. Various of 27-year-old prisoner Ernest Volvach distributing food in the kitchen
12. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ernest Volvach, 27, prisoner:
"It's stupid to sit here doing nothing. I wanted to (mobilize) from the very beginning, there was simply no such opportunity. Now it has appeared."
13. Wide of prisoner distributing bread
14. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ernest Volvach, 27, prisoner:
"I think it’s more difficult to go to war, of course, but for some reason I want to do something for Ukraine."
15. Close-up of plate
16. Various of prisoners having lunch
17. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Serhii Fedchenko, deputy head of the penal colony for social, educational and psychological work:
"We honestly thought that a larger number of convicts would refuse their applications, but to our surprise, the number of such convicts increased even more. Almost two years of war, and nearly 400 people applied."
18. Various of prisoner working in a prison shop
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Kyiv, Ukraine - 27 June 2024
19. Various of pre-trial detention center
20. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Vysotska, Deputy Justice Minister of Ukraine:
"Here is this open door for the military, for the commanders who said what will happen to the convicts after the decision on parole, if they sign a contract with this or that unit. This led to the fact that we have more than 5,000 such submitted applications."
21. Detention center
22. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Vysotska, Deputy Justice Minister of Ukraine:
"To date, there are approximately 27,000 convicts who have already received sentences and can use this law."
23. Various of pre-trial detention center
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Dnipropetrovsk region - 22 June 2024
24. Various of prisoners shooting from machine gun during training with Arey Battalion
25. Armored vehicle being driven
26. Prisoners inside the vehicle
27. Prisoners getting out of the vehicle
28. Various of prisoners shooting from machine guns
29. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mykhailo (gave only his first name due to security reasons), prisoner:
"I decided to voluntarily enrol in the Ukrainian Volunteer Army because I have a family at home, children, parents. I will be more useful in the war."
30. Various of intelligence commander of Arey Battalion "Ryha" training prisoners to shoot from RPG-7
31. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) "Ruha", intelligence commander of Arey Battalion:
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