Ukrainian Independence (2023)

overview : The film’s events take place on a single day: August 24, 2022, the day Ukraine celebrates the 31st anniversary of the renewal of independent statehood. The film combines places and people that best capture the country’s wartime spirit. The locations are: the relatively safe cities of Kyiv and Lviv; the cities under daily missile fire of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv; a trench at the frontlines near Donetsk; and the beaches of Odesa. The film presents a day in the life of a beach police patrol, a woman anti-tank missile operator, a water delivery driver, a mortar unit soldier, a rapid assault unit soldier, a 14-year-old pub janitor, an artist and a former member of parliament. Together, these people and places create an engaging mosaic of a day in the life of Ukraine.

Release Date : Aug 24, 2023

Runtime : 1h 18m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : Babylon'13, PISF

Countries : Poland, Ukraine

Keywords : independence, independence day, russian invasion of ukraine, ukraine, war, ukrainian history, odesa, ukraine, kyiv, ukraine, kharkiv (kharkov), ukraine, russo-ukrainian war, armed forces of ukraine, state emergency service of ukraine