A person in Lviv this morning stares at portraits of people murdered by Russian soldiers.
Many of the portraits are children.
Polina Kudrin was the first child victim of the war. She and her parents were murdered as they tried to flee.
Polina’s seven-year-old brother, Semyon, died in hospital a few days later. Their 13-year-old sister Sophia is the only surviving member of her family.
Russian journalist Oksana Baulina was killed during shelling by Russian forces in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Sofia Fedko and her family were murdered at a checkpoint.
Naveen Gyanagoudar, a 21-year-old medical student, was murdered by Russian shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv, after he left his bunker to exchange currency and buy food.
Alisa Hlans was one of six people who were murdered when Russia attacked a kindergarten. Alisa was three months away from her eighth birthday.
Aleksandra Kuvshynova, a Ukrainian producer working with Fox News, was murdered alongside Pierre Zakrzewski by Russians near Kyiv.
Jewish Ukrainian soccer player Dmytro Martynenko, 25, was a midfielder/striker for Hostomel in the second amateur league in Kyiv. He finished as its top scorer last season and was scheduled to join a team in Israel for the 2022/23 season.
He was killed by shelling.
There are so many innocent people who were murdered for no reason.
These were just regular people living their lives until Russia decided Ukraine shouldn’t exist.
And now they are gone in an instant.
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Russian media organization @meduza_en gave a review of the film "russians at war" and gave the assessment that it is "a carefully selected and sifted version of the trench truth" questioning why it shows no conscripts, no Wagnerites, no prisoners, no evil... 🧵1/4
"There is not a word about why and under what circumstances Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place. Not a hint of war crimes"
"Cinematography is a magnifying glass that turns any fact into an artistic image (propaganda works the same way)"
Russian doc filmmaker Vitaly Mansky says that this film was very professionally done and so were the films of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl
"I don't agree [that this is an anti-war film]." and "I don't know to what extent this sympathy brings the end of the war closer."