For the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion I put together a five-hour broadcast on Ukraine's civilians, built from four years of my footage. It opens at St. Michael's Square beside the destroyed Russian vehicles and the memorial wall of the fallen, with names going back to 2014.
Kristina Shkudra of PR Army's "Where Are Our People" project explains the scale of Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children. From the Empty Chairs event, journalists returned from captivity speak, among them Dmytro Khyliuk, and colleagues remember Viktoriia Roshchyna. I also show a first-year aid run with Phil Ehr through Mykolaiv and the Bucha area.
The longest film profiles Anatoliy, a videographer from Savyntsi in Kharkiv region who filmed his village for decades and was held about 100 days in Balakliia. We close with Jesuit chaplain Andriy Zelinskyi and a Petrykivka painter decorating Kyiv's barricades.
Chapters
0:00 Opening music
16:21 Welcome and the week's anniversary programs
26:11 St. Michael's Square: Princess Olga and destroyed Russian armor
35:21 The memorial wall, 2014 to today
51:47 The bells of St. Michael's
56:39 Yulia, waiting for her father in captivity
59:18 Kristina Shkudra on deported Ukrainian children
1:20:56 Back in the studio: Kyiv neighbors and platforms
1:27:39 Co-creating with Ukrainian journalists
1:31:06 Learning Ukrainian
1:40:16 Film: aid runs with Phil Ehr in the first year
1:47:45 A volunteer from Mykolaiv
2:01:47 A drop-off point near Bucha
2:10:38 Phil Ehr's appeal
2:21:36 Why the work stays free
2:27:29 Journalists home from captivity
2:31:13 Dmytro Khyliuk at the Empty Chairs event
2:39:22 Poetry and remembrance
2:42:21 Viktoriia Roshchyna
2:50:47 Names on the empty chairs
2:54:49 Introducing Anatoliy of Savyntsi
3:01:55 Film: filming the Russian column in Savyntsi
3:08:40 Fifty years filming his village
3:14:56 Arrest and about 100 days in Balakliia
3:18:34 The village football team
3:25:10 School photographer since 1974
3:38:58 Tortured for speaking Ukrainian
3:57:28 What occupation revealed about neighbors
4:08:10 His YouTube channel and plans
4:15:11 The camera Russian forces took
4:23:24 Hopes for victory
4:25:24 The camera turned on us
4:36:27 Processing what we film
4:40:45 Oleksandr Babych, mayor of Hola Prystan
4:43:12 Introducing chaplain Andriy Zelinskyi
4:47:06 Mending broken humanity: chaplaincy since 2014
4:58:59 What America means to him
5:05:10 A Petrykivka painter on Kyiv's barricades
5:13:09 Wrap: Oleg Skrypka, UAMission and heroes-ukraine.org
5:22:55 Good night
