- Title: 362 UA Frontline COVID-19
- Date: 26th June 2020
- Description:People at the frontline in the areas controlled by pro-Russia separatists suffer from war and the consequences of the pandemic People living in Ukraine in the areas controlled by pro-Russia separatists and near the frontline are hit hard by the coronavirus crisis and the war. Border crossings were open only for a short period of time and are closed again. People on each side, have to go into 14-day quarantine after crossing the border. Ukrainian villages near the frontline get more and more abandoned, only old people stay in the region. The International Red Cross tries to help them and delivers necessities. This time they brought roof sheeting. Families are hit hard by COVID-19 epidemic restrictions. Ljubow Tichonowa was separated from her husband for over three months. He was unable to enter the Ukrainian area controlled by pro-Russia separatists due to the COVID-19 movement restrictions. Ljubow Tichonowa has three children, one of them is handicapped. Now she was able to go to Ukraine. Others were able to enter the Ukrainian area controlled by pro-Russia separatists, but now have to stay in quarantine for 14 days. There have been tents set up near Donetsk. Over 13,000 people have been killed since the conflict started in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014, following the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia. Shotlist LOCATION: Veselij, Ukraine DATE: 26 June - VS International Red Cross convoy driving along road - VS International Red Cross employees unloading truck that brought roof sheeting - PAN RIGHT/LEFT Exterior house, damaged roof - VS Local residents carrying roof sheeting - MS Exterior house damaged by firing - SOUNDBITE (Russian) pensioner, no name given: " It [International Red Cross] brought us water and gas, and the renewed the electricity lines. Good should keep them healthy." - VS International Red Cross employees in village - MS Exterior ruined house LOCATION: Oleniwka, Ukraine DATE: 25 June - WS Exterior apartment block - VS Ljubow Tichonowa packing her luggage, she and her children had to get through on their own, as her husband could not cross the border due to the coronavirus restrictions - MS Handicapped son seated on floor - C/U Tichonowa closing bag - SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ljubow Tichonowna, local resident: "Children ask every day a hundred times when their father will come. I don't even know what to tell them because it has never been before like that, before my husband was always leaving only for three days." - MS Tichonowa putting bags into car, talking to military men - MS Tichonowa's children in car - VS Tichonowa crossing border LOCATION: Oleniwka, Ukraine DATE: 27 June - VS People crossing into area controlled by Russia, men in military uniform checking their papers, women in protective clothes measuring their temperature - VS People filling in forms - Night shots of vans carrying people drive along road accompanied by police cars LOCATION: Near Donetsk, Ukraine - MS People getting out of vans - VS People walking towards tents where they have to stay for 14 days in quarantine - VS People inside tents - VS Exterior tents at night
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:26/06/2020
- Decade: 2020s