"An emotionally devastating account of the inhumanity of war."
"Documentary film-making rarely gets more impactful and devastating than this personalised account of life inside the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol at the start of last year’s Russian invasion."
those bastards buying out Mariupol real estate. the bombed out buildings. apartments people died in. because it's cheap and they expect the cost to raise so they can literally make money on Ukrainians' graves.
and this is your everyday average russian citizen.
Two years ago on this day, Russia committed one of the most cynical and bloody war crimes of this war. Airstrike on the Mariupol Drama Theater, which was used as a shelter for civilians remaining in the city under the russian siege. It had "children" written in large letters in front of it for the russian pilots to see. Except they took it as a target, not as a warning.
It is heartbreaking to think that we will never know the number of victims, the russians wiped out all the edivence.
On this day two years ago, some of us realized that russia is capable of anything if it remains unpunished. There are no moral boundaries for this evil.
I just watched 20 days in Mariupol - the first Ukrainian movie to win an Oscar, the footage of the first 20 days of russian full scale invasion of Ukraine as seen from Mariupol.
As the director Mstyslav Chernov said, “It is painful to watch. But it should be painful to watch.” And I ask everyone, especially non-Ukrainians, to watch this.
Other than that, I can’t find any words to describe what I just saw. I can only add that I agree with the director’s words: “I wish this film was never made.”
Remember this every time you open a volume of "great russian literature." Because while you are reading russian literature - russians are throwing away and destroying ukrainian literature.
Lesya Ukrainka's collection in this pile just kills me.☠️😭
p.s. to all the offended children who can't live without russians and their spoiled literature, like yesterday's cabbage soup, ventilate your rooms, go out, stroke the grass and read something else, not what you were taught at school. FUCK OFF!
basement of the last standing hospital in besieged Mariupol. "The child lived 23 days 20 hours" - says the sheet of paper laying on the little lifeless body of an infant.
New trend among "apolitical russians" - touring the ukrainian cities destroyed by russian army in order to take "aesthetic" pictures 😍😍😍 and justifying it with "I can go wherever I want in my country" 😍😍😍😍 but also "I'm outside politics" 🥺🥺🥺
Exactly 2 years ago, Russians dropped a bomb on the Mariupol Drama Theater, where civilians were hiding from shelling.
an inscription on the ground, "children" is written. In Russian.
March 16 marks the anniversary of one of the largest terrorist attacks carried out by Russians in Ukraine. On this day, the occupiers dropped two powerful bombs on the building of the Mariupol Drama Theater, where about a thousand people were hiding.
Immediately after the attack, the Mariupol City Council reported about 300 civilians killed. Later, The Associated Press in its investigation put the number at 600.
But untill now, the exact number of victims of this terrorist attack is still unknown.
All evidence was destroyed by Russian monsters after the occupation of the city, but we will not forget.
"The world must remember everything that Russia has done against Ukraine and Ukrainians, and every Russian murderer must be held accountable for what they have done. We will ensure that they are held accountable," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Russian realtors lead potential buyers through destroyed apartments in Mariupol, where the owners were either forced to flee, or were killed by Russian bombs. Realtors recommend to invest in “razrushka” (a mockingly derisive word, derived from "razrukha,” or ruins), and joke that the previous owners had to leave in a hurry. These are incredibly disgusting vultures.
Russian realtors and speculators are buying and selling Ukrainian homes in the cities devastated by Putin. I don’t ever want to hear from tankies about how this Russian invasion was ever about “freeing” Russian speakers 🙄 or “de-nazifying” Ukraine. It’s Russian imperialism + colonialism. It’s ruthless, cold blooded land theft.
When Russia isn’t busy kidnapping Ukrainian children, they’re stealing Ukrainian land and homes.