When Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol premiered in early 2023, there were already concerns that less than a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion, the West was already “tired” of the war. US conservatives in particular were whining that we’d already “done enough” to save somebody else’s democracy. In his new 2000 Meters to Andriivka, which was primarily shot later that same year, the filmmaker sighs “The longer it all goes on, the less the world will care about it.” God knows our current political environment of endless distraction and disinformation (much of the latter apparently generated by Mother Russia) helps foster such indifference. Yet the conflict is hardly less immediate for Ukrainians, whose sacrifice to save their nation is vividly illustrated in th
Screen Grabs: Brutality on the ground in ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’

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