There are daily horror stories in Kherson. Degloving head wounds on ambulance drivers. Aid workers bombed while saving drowning civilians. Once saw an elderly murdered at the crack of dawn during their morning walk in the middle of the road. There is nowhere worse than Kherson.

Senior Lieutenant Kuzminsky Yuri Viktorovich, known by many of you in our recent Pokrovsk documentary by the call-sign "Obi-Wan", died on the Pokrovsk axis after receiving wounds from an enemy FPV drone. He guided us through the city during our last trip there when it was semi-encircled on three sides, and did his best to keep us alive while we filmed what remained of the ruins of the city. He was a very clever man, and seemed interested in making sure we documented the war to the best of our ability. I am forever thankful for that. He served for 542 days in the 68th's "Shershni Dovbusha" unit. Ukrainian command says during his time in uniform he flew 1,477 drone sorties, and disabled 187 enemy personnel, 120 vehicles, 3 mortars, 2 guns.🇺🇦🕯️

One Year on the Pokrovsk Frontline is Out Now Filmed over a year from outside Avdiivka to Pokrovsk, we follow the Ukrainian armed forces trying to stem the Russian advance on the city. As well as talk to the locals swept up in the fighting as they lose their homes.

An underreported consequence of Russian occupation is Ukranians being illegally forced into military service to fight their former neighbors. Such a grim war.