Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods – this distressingly intimate film, Ukrainian soldiers as young as 19 carry their dying comrades through a freezing forest as the sky turns red with gunfire. Their horror and humanity will never leave you. ( BBC Documentary ), more in comments.
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Contains strong language, graphic violence and upsetting scenes.
Contains discriminatory language.
“*A single Ukrainian infantry company find themselves in a life or death battle to defend the eastern front against intense Russian attacks. This is an extraordinary portrait of lives compromised by the turmoil of a bloody war, filmed by Ukrainian soldiers.*
*With exclusive access to a tightly controlled front line, the film follows the mission of a special battalion as they undertake a single deployment on one of Ukraine’s most violent battlefronts, a snow-covered forest near Kupyansk. Their mission is to defend a railway line, a key strategic asset that, if captured, will enable Russia to mount a direct attack on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv”*
[Alternate link :](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8vwp3w)
*”this distressingly intimate film, Ukrainian soldiers as young as 19 carry their dying comrades through a freezing forest as the sky turns red with gunfire. Their horror and humanity will never leave you*
*If the first casualty of war is truth, the second is youth. The average age of British and American soldiers in the First and Second World Wars was 26 — considerably less than that of plastic Hollywood heroes like John Wayne, who donned multiple uniforms and served bravely on a studio backlot.*
*By the time of the Vietnam War, the average age of US troops had dropped to 22 (Wayne “fought” in that conflict too, aged 62, in an awful film called The Green Berets).*
*One of the things that strikes you when watching Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods (BBC2, Monday, March 25), which follows the country’s Berlingo Battalion on a tense seven-week mission through snowy woods near Kupyansk, is how shockingly young everyone on screen is.*
*A soldier called Roman is just two weeks away from turning 20, an age when a young person should be enjoying their life, not fearing for it.*
*A unit commander called Vlad was thrust into a leadership role at 19, after just a single combat mission. A third was looking forward to getting his driving licence before the Russians invaded. Even the battalion’s leader, Vovan, looks no older than early to mid-20s.*
*The unlikeliness of the conflict ending any time soon is forcefully brought home in this riveting documentary, filmed, produced and directed by Jamie Roberts, who also made 2021’s Four Hours at the Capitol.”*
I want to watch this. But it’s been two years and this type of this thing continually crushes me. Even more than ever.
Says I can’t watch it since I’m not in the UK… any way to watch it in the states?
very powerful watch, what was disturbing and hard hitting about what this war is doing was the fact 76 out of the 99 man strong unit was either killed or wounded before they were rotated out, the whole of NATO need to step up and give these guys more weapons and ammo to hit Russians hard behind the forward battle area to stop this constant wave of Russian troops attacking
Of the 99 that started the battle, 66 have serious injuries, and 10 died.
War is hell. There are no better descriptions. My Dad was WW2, wounded three times, the third sent him home, half deaf, burned & shot-up. He commanded an armored car always at the front line covering infantry. When I was a kid, Id hear him yelling & crying in his sleep. I couldn’t watch this.
BBC site “only works in UK”, anyone in US have luck trying to stream over vpn with UK endpoint?