Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by Nimisha Jaiswal
00:48 Vasyl | Injured soldier
01:03 Artem | Injured soldier
01:28 Almas Khaziyev | Hospital volunteer
01:59 Larysa | Refugee
03:31 Elya Derektorenko | Wife of PoW

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00:01
A first meeting, in a hospital in Dnipro.

00:05
SOT Almas Khaziyev, Hospital volunteer
“Your name is Vasyl, right? I’m Almas. I also have no legs now — you probably saw? I used to lie there like you.”

00:25
((Shots of Vasyl))
Vasyl was brought here barely 5 hours ago. A mechanic, he was mobilised just last year to serve as a drone operator. Until a Russian drone attack. He lost both his legs. 

00:40
 ((Shots of ward))
These men have some of the strongest personal reasons for wanting the war to stop. But no-one here trusts Russia’s intentions. 

00:48
SOT Vasyl, Injured soldier
The Russians will keep deceiving the world — and us — again and again. Without allies, I don’t see a system that could work. 

01:03
SOT Artem, Injured soldier
Sooner or later, even if there are peace talks and peace is declared, with a ceasefire, I think in a year or two it’ll all start again. 

01:19
((Almaz walking away))
Almaz has volunteered at this hospital since it saved his life in 2023. He agrees.

01:27
SOT Almas
When they want to take our territories, our children, our people, our future. That is unacceptable. When you’re being shelled and killed every day during “peace talks” — that’s just wrong. 

01:50
((Shots of phone screen with Telegram, woman on phone))
Larysa lived under constant fire in her home in Konstantynyvka - while hoping for peace. 

01:58
SOT Larysa, Refugee
It may be funny, but I had very high hopes pinned on Trump, for his  promises. I thought there would be some kind of negotiations. We thought the war would end on New Year, or that maybe on Easter the war would end. 

02:16
((Shots of woman bringing food to mother, with mother))
But she and her mother are now on the move - currently at a refugee centre in a theatre in Pavlohrad. It was impossible to stay home without doctors and a pharmacy. 

02:27
SOT Larysa
The worst thing is that this might be  a one-way ticket. Because our Kostiantynivka may end up like Bakhmut. Then there would be nowhere to go.

02:48
((Shots of woman))
Larysa also has two sons on the frontlines. She says those in Kyiv may feel differently, but for her, the war needs to end now. 

02:59
SOT Larysa
Those who don't know what it is like, they sleep easy. They say, yes, fight to the last drop of blood. But that might be the blood of my child. I don't want it to be to the last drop. I want my kids to come home. 

03:15
((Shots of Elya on her phone, photos of husband))
Elya is waiting for her husband to come home. Russians captured Andriy more than three years ago - right at the start of the full-scale invasion. Someone from his unit managed to make one last phone call.

03:30
SOT Elya Derektorenko, Wife of PoW
“I heard him say, “Honey, we are alive, we were taken prisoner.” The connection was cut off, and he never got in touch again.”

03:50
((Shots of family together))
She and her son wait for news of Andriy, worried by stories of torture and starvation told by released PoWs. But, she still doesn’t want to end the war on Russia’s terms. 

04:03
SOT Elya
A lot of our heroes have died. And I would not want it all to be for nothing. My husband went to defend his family, so that my son won’t have to go to war, so that he won’t have to go through this hell.	

04:28
((Images of people - Elya, Larysa, Vasyl, Almaz)) 
Ukrainians here in the country’s East have a huge stake in the fighting coming to an end. But they are divided over what price they would pay for peace.

04:40 - VO ends
04:45 - video ends