The growing fatigue of Ukrainian troops deployed to combat duty for more than a year is making a further major mobilization wave unavoidable, soldiers of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade told Ukrainian journalist Ramina Eskhakzai on Jan. 29.
The documentary records the Russian siege of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast from the perspective of journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his crew during the first weeks of the full-scale invasion. "20 Days in Mariupol" has become the first Ukrainian film made by a Ukrainian director to receive an Oscar nomination since the country gained independence in 1991.
The police have identified five men who broke into the apartment of Yuriy Nikolov, a journalist with the Nashi Hroshi project, the Kyiv police reported on Facebook on Jan. 21.
A Ukrainian marine from Mariupol, Hennadiy Zelenyi, shared his story about Russian captivity and his escape from it in an interview with Ukrainian journalist and video blogger Ramina Eshakzai on Nov. 15.