Speaking to CNN, actor Sean Penn said the Ukrainian president should be invited to speak about the war at the Academy Awards and it would be "obscene" if Hollywood did not oblige.
Not Putin, Russian culture is "the face of Russia," says Valentin Silvestrov, one of Ukraine's most important contemporary composers. From Berlin, he spoke to DW about the war in his native country.
Starvation under Stalin, the Nazis' execution of Jews at Babi Yar, the Maidan protests or the battle for the Donbas: These films look into Ukraine's eventful history.