Russia’s war in Ukraine: on Putin’s front lines (2023)

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Journalist Sean Langan reports from the Donbass region, an area annexed by Moscow. He meets those living on the front lines, as well as soldiers fighting for Russia. It’s a rare look at a world usually inaccessible to Western media.

Together with his colleague — Donetsk-based translator Sascha — Langan goes behind the front lines of the Russian war in Ukraine. Despite working under the watchful eyes of Russian authorities, he manages to gain deep insights into the merciless war of attrition on the front. The conflict has already claimed an estimated hundreds of thousands of lives, and this film shows Moscow’s relentless determination to fight on, regardless of its own losses.

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