UKRAINE: DIVERGING STORIES OF SURVIVAL ALONG FRONTLINES
<p><b>***This package/segment contains third party material. Unless otherwise noted, this material may only be used within this package/segment.***</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>:00-:29</p>\n<p>Ukrainian Military </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:30-:34</p>\n<p>"Serhiy"</p>\n<p>Ukrainian Soldier</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:35-1:05</p>\n<p>Ukrainian Military</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:10-1:24</p>\n<p>Ukrainian Military</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:25-1:30</p>\n<p>"Serhiy"</p>\n<p>Ukrainian Soldier</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:30-1:40</p>\n<p>Ukrainian Military</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:41-1:49</p>\n<p>"Eugene"</p>\n<p>Drone Pilot, 15th National Guard Brigade</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:53-2:47</p>\n<p>Ukrainian Military</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>2:54-3:05</p>\n<p>"Technik"</p>\n<p>Assault Squad, 15th National Guard Brigade</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>3:17-3:23</p>\n<p>"Kros"</p>\n<p>Assault Squad, 15th National Guard Brigade</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>3:31-END </p>\n<p>Ukrainian Military</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p>THE UKRAINIANS ARE PUSHING AN INTENSE COUNTEROFFENSIVE IN THE SOUTH OF THEIR COUNTRY. </p>\n<p>CNN GOT EXTRAORDINARY FOOTAGE OF TWO DIFFERENT FATES OF SOLDIERS ON THE FRONTLINES: A UKRAINIAN SAVED BY A DRONE AND A RUSSIAN COMMANDER WHO WAS ABANDONED BY HIS UNIT.</p>\n<p>NICK PATON WALSH HAST THE STORY. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>IT IS USUALLY ONLY THE DEAD LYING HERE... IN THE CRATERS OF UKRAINE’S SOUTHERN FRONT.</p>\n<p>BUT SOMETIMES, A GLINT OF LIFE SHINES.</p>\n<p>THIS DRONE SPOTTING A UKRAINIAN SOLDIER, SERHEY, SEPARATED FROM HIS UNIT.</p>\n<p>WOUNDED IN THE CHEST AND LEG BY SHELLING, HE FILMED THIS AS HE LAY ALONE BLEEDING.</p>\n<p>HE FEARED WHATEVER FIGHT TO LIVE HE PUT UP WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH, HE LATER TOLD CNN FROM HIS HOSPITAL BED.</p>\n<p>"Serhiy", Ukrainian Soldier: I was ready to fight for my life and I did even lying there under the blazing sun. I realized I was too close to the Russians, and you even start to look at your gun in a different way.</p>\n<p>BUT THE DRONE OPERATORS HAD OTHER PLANS.</p>\n<p>THEY ATTACHED WATER, MEDICINE, AND A NOTE TO THE DRONE, AND SENT IT BACK.</p>\n<p>IT FOUND HIM AGAIN, AND DROPPED THE PACKAGE.</p>\n<p>BUT HE DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS FRIENDLY, OR A RUSSIAN BOMB.</p>\n<p>"Serhiy", Ukrainian Soldier: All the time I was crawling a drone was always hovering above. We didn’t realize if it was friend or foe, it was a lottery.</p>\n<p>THIS THE MOMENT HE REALIZES THE DRONE MAY SAVE HIM.</p>\n<p>THE WATER AND MEDICINE KEPT COMING, EASING THE PAIN THAT WAS VISIBLE EVEN FROM UP HIGH, AND THEN CRAWLED BACK TO SAFETY.</p>\n<p>"Serhiy", Ukrainian Soldier: The combat medics who gave me first aid when they found me, were very surprised I survived for two days with a pierced lung.</p>\n<p>SERHIY IS RECOVERING AND TALKS NOW OF A NEW LIFE, WITH GREATER VALUE AND PURPOSE.</p>\n<p>THEY DON’T WANT TO LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND SAID THE DRONE OPERATOR. </p>\n<p>"Eugene", Drone Pilot, 15th National Guard Brigade: Every life is important to us. I could not live with myself if we just left someone in the field.</p>\n<p>NATS </p>\n<p>PROBABLY ONLY SEVERAL MILES AWAY, SALVATION WAS UGLIER.</p>\n<p>HERE IS A UKRAINIAN ASSAULT BOY THE 15TH NATIONAL GUARD ON A RUSSIAN POSITION.</p>\n<p>NATS</p>\n<p>IT IS FEROCIOUS AND EVENTUALLY FORCED THE DOZEN RUSSIAN TROOPS TO PULL BACK.</p>\n<p>ARTILLERY HAD INJURED THE RUSSIAN COMMANDER BADLY, AND THE RUSSIANS LEFT HIM BEHIND, PRESUMING HE WAS DEAD.</p>\n<p>BUT, THIS VIDEO SUPPLIED BY UKRAINIAN FORCES SHOWS, THEY FOUND HIM ALIVE.</p>\n<p>AND HE RECEIVED MEDICAL TREATMENT.</p>\n<p>WE ARE NOT NAMING HIM FOR HIS SAFETY, BUT HE WAS LATER AWARDED A POSTHUMOUS MEDAL, ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN MEDIA REPORTS.</p>\n<p>LEFT BEHIND, AND DECLARED DEAD BY HIS COMRADES.</p>\n<p>THE UKRAINIANS WHO FOUND HIM SAY HE MAY HAVE WISHED HE DIDN’T SURVIVE.</p>\n<p>"Technik", Assault Squad, 15th National Guard Brigade: We said, 'don’t try anything or you will die.', he says. And he asked us to shoot him. And we offered him a chance to do it himself, but he said he could not do it. He’s an enemy, and I had desire not to save him. But orders are orders. And they have our guys and we can swap prisoners.</p>\n<p>"Kros", Assault Squad, 15th National Guard Brigade: As a human, another says, I was shocked that they left him behind. But as a soldier I know my enemy and I know it is not an uncommon practice for them.</p>\n<p>THE OPPOSITE FATES ON DIFFERENT SIDES IN THESE WIDE, UGLY EXPANSES OF VIOLENCE.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>UKRAINE RUSSIA FRONTLINES SOLDIERS </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>