Nomad
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Last night on PBS Frontline I saw something that was absolutely riveting.
It's a Ukraine war documentary called "2,000 Meters to Andriivka".
The film is mostly composed of actual helmet-cam video recorded by Ukrainian soldiers in combat, shot in real-time and showing the battlefield confrontations and aerial drone attacks.
Three journalists follow a Ukrainian platoon of the 3rd Assault Brigade on a mission to liberate Russian-occupied Andriivka in 2023, during the second year of the Russian-Ukrainian war. During the film, they fight their way through the final 2,000 meters of a "forrest", which in reality is a strip of dead tree trunks and underbrush in which borrows have been dug, simulating tunnels in which the Russian soldiers take shelter in and shoot at them from within.
As a result of the war, the village was completely destroyed and its population fully displaced.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhbTiZSK3f0
It's pretty intense. The fighting gets up close and personal with Ukrainian and Russian soldiers so close they're yelling back and forth as the bullets they fire at each other whiz past. Some hitting their target. Some of the soldiers seen talking on camera one minute, end up lying dead not long afterward. Making it even more sad, is that these are decent, mostly educated, articulate, friendly and personable young guys, barely into their 20's who were students or had jobs and families prior to volunteering to fight for their country.
I highly recommend watching it.
Full YouTube video below.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4Cgy56slU
There was one happy note in the film. It involved the only living creature left in the village after the Ukrainians retook it.
A stray, homeless cat who one of the soldiers picked up and was later able to find a home for...
They named it ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ถ๐๐ธ๐ฎ, after the village.
Seriously.... watch this film.
It's a Ukraine war documentary called "2,000 Meters to Andriivka".
The film is mostly composed of actual helmet-cam video recorded by Ukrainian soldiers in combat, shot in real-time and showing the battlefield confrontations and aerial drone attacks.
Three journalists follow a Ukrainian platoon of the 3rd Assault Brigade on a mission to liberate Russian-occupied Andriivka in 2023, during the second year of the Russian-Ukrainian war. During the film, they fight their way through the final 2,000 meters of a "forrest", which in reality is a strip of dead tree trunks and underbrush in which borrows have been dug, simulating tunnels in which the Russian soldiers take shelter in and shoot at them from within.
As a result of the war, the village was completely destroyed and its population fully displaced.
It's pretty intense. The fighting gets up close and personal with Ukrainian and Russian soldiers so close they're yelling back and forth as the bullets they fire at each other whiz past. Some hitting their target. Some of the soldiers seen talking on camera one minute, end up lying dead not long afterward. Making it even more sad, is that these are decent, mostly educated, articulate, friendly and personable young guys, barely into their 20's who were students or had jobs and families prior to volunteering to fight for their country.
I highly recommend watching it.
Full YouTube video below.
There was one happy note in the film. It involved the only living creature left in the village after the Ukrainians retook it.
A stray, homeless cat who one of the soldiers picked up and was later able to find a home for...
They named it ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ถ๐๐ธ๐ฎ, after the village.
Seriously.... watch this film.
