Russians at War

Anastasia Trofimova, a Russian-Canadian filmmaker, gains unprecedented access to follow a Russian Army battalion in Ukraine. Without any official clearance or permits, she earns the trust of foot soldiers and embeds herself over the span of a year with one battalion as it makes its way across Eastern Ukraine. What she discovers is far from the propaganda and labels pushed by either the East or the West: an army in disarray, with soldiers disillusioned and often struggling to understand what they are fighting for. Russians at War serves as an existential critique of the war, exposing the mechanisms that sustain it and reminding us of the human cost on both sides. As Trofimova so eloquently puts it, “The fog of war is so thick that you can’t see the human stories it’s made of.”

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