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View a machine-translated version of the Finnish article.In it, Arndt Ginzel uses images from Ukrainian reconnaissance drones to describe the fate of several families who were targeted by Russian soldiers on the Zhytomyr highway west of Kyiv.

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“Trauma and Hope” is the appropriate subtitle of the report in the series “The Story in the First”, which is also characterized by the fact that the authors largely refrain from superfluous comments.Īs a supplement, the “Frontal” documentary “Die Straße des Todes” is recommended, which is now available in the ZDF media library after it was broadcast in the night from Wednesday to Thursday. After pathetic songs, memorable chants (“Ukraine – above all, Putin – is a dick”) and the blessing of the recruits by a priest, a deeply kissing bridal couple, a recruit in uniform and his bride in civilian clothes, dance to the cheers and the Applause from bystanders across the square. Because it is also the scene of a wedding. The scene of the recruits being sworn in on a large square in Irpin is also characteristic of the Ukrainian “spirit”. They will say: With this spirit, victory is ours.” When you see her husband mowing the lawn in the middle of a landscape of ruins, the quick-witted Olga shows black humor: “Our neighbors are freaking out. There is no drinking water, a car battery provides light. They visit Olga, who turned her restaurant into a shelter for the neighborhood during the bombing and occupation. Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz accompany a city councilor who inspects destroyed houses and apartments, worried about booby traps left behind. It is up to the survivors to cope with the difficult everyday life. Yuri, who was the head of Borodyanka’s municipal utilities during peacetime, is now responsible for supplying coffins and burying hundreds of dead people.

Women are searching for the bodies of their husbands, which have been recovered from makeshift graves and lost in the chaos. Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz went there again five weeks later to show “life afterwards”, as they comment from the off at the beginning of their report.īodies are still being discovered, stored in sacks in refrigerated trucks, driven to cemeteries. In truth, the war is always present in this film about the people in Bucha, Irpin and Borodjanka: After the Russian army withdrew, the three suburbs of Kiev were in the public eye for a few days – as a synonym for committed war crimes, because on the streets the Bodies of killed civilians were found.

It’s a strange feeling: “As if time has stood still.” “But life will never be the same again,” says Olenka. In some scenes of the ARD report “Leben nach Butscha” by Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz, peace seems very close. She is sitting at a nicely laid table in the garden, stroking the cat, the trees are in bloom. “I’m happy because I’m at home,” she says later. Olenka, on the other hand, has meanwhile returned home to Borodjanka, a suburb of Kyiv. Each child reports what they wish for and where they are at the moment, fleeing the war with their family. Her teacher has nevertheless assembled part of the class, digitally on the screen. 13-year-old Olenka sits alone in the classroom.

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