Slava Ukraini

Great movie showing the fighting and suffering of the people of Ukraine. Worth the time to watch to get a true account of what is happening on the ground. The heroism is unbelievable. The film maker and his team took an extreme risk to film this documentary. The editing is not like a regular movie but the cuts are intended to show the ferocity of the fighting and the dangers the people of Ukraine face.

This documentary should be required viewing to show the aggression that Russia and the government have unleashed on the people of Ukraine.

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We saw "Slava Ukraini" today at Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale, the documentary from Jewish-French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who travels to different parts of Ukraine in the second half of 2022. A few of the scenes that stuck with me: 1) Levy in a trench with Ukrainian soldiers as he reflects in narration "on this archaic habit of men burying themselves so not to die." 2) Levy visits a Breslov synagogue in Uman that sheltered outsiders, an act that he says serves as "a magnificent rebuttal to Putin's propaganda about the inexpiable war between Ukraine and its Jews." 3) Many powerful scenes of Levy interviewing Ukrainians from liberated regions, and especially the visual of survivors in liberated Kherson gathering around generators to charge their phones, preparing to call people who may have been killed. The movie ended with a powerful message that we must fully support Ukraine and not let the West push them to acquiesce ceding any of their territory to Russia. I highly recommended seeing this film.

Not only does Levys annoying narration leave me unsettled. His egotistical demenor and behavior in the film doesn't support the mediocre visuals of his quote-on-quote "adventure in Ukraine". The audacity of Levy to call his trip to Ukraine "an adventure". Is beyond direspectful to the countless soldiers and civilians that have died in this pointless political proxy war of which only the common man suffers. The film has left me convinced that Levy supports the glamorization of war in Ukraine rather than it coming to an end. The majority of the film was handshaking lieutenants and generals rather than telling grassroot stories. Highly disappointed.

Watch 20 Days in Mariupol by tor: Mstyslav Chernov.

Is anybody at all surprised? The Russian special military operation looks like any other war so far. The lady who left the letter on Putin's parents graves had the right attitude about this. It has been said that an army loses gradually then all at once.

The director of this documentary focuses on a wonderful point, that it doesn't make any sense to go after a target with no strategic important like Bakhmut. Yet that is where the Russian army is focusing their effort. Sending endless waves of Ruscist soldiers to their death for a few meters of ground.

The troops that failed to take Vuhledar are now the ones that have retreated and exposed Prigozhin's Wagner Groups flanks.

It is such a tragedy for everyone involved. W should all hope that Putin's demise is the final chapter.

From NY Times : "Slava Ukraini"- "Glory to Ukraine"- premiered in France on Feb. 22 and is expected to be released in the United States in the coming months. It was shot over the past year during more than 10 trips Lévy made to Ukraine. The film (Lévy's second about the conflict there) has garnered praise for its unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. "Without a doubt, Lévy has never filmed and conveyed distress and death with such harshness and such relentless rawness," observed L'Express, the influential French magazine."In Ukraine, I had the feeling for the first time that the world I knew, the world in which I grew up, the world that I want to leave to my children and grandchildren, might collapse," he said during an interview at the Carlyle Hotel in New York earlier this month.