Ukraine's War: The Other Side(2024)
The documentary follows filmmaker Sean Langan's journey into the invader’s Russian side of the war in Eastern Ukraine. Sean heads into the Russian-occupied Donbas region to find out through the eyes of soldiers on the Eastern front and civilians coping with war in the streets how the conflict is affecting them.
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