Our cameras captured life on the front lines in southeast Ukraine, where Russian shelling is relentless and it feels like the war is inching closer every day.
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I’m Yousur Al-Hlou, the lead producer on this short documentary from The New York Times. Along with my co-producer Masha Froliak and the cinematographer Benjamin Foley, we spent two weeks reporting in and around Zaporizhia, in southeast Ukraine, capturing the toll of relentless Russian shelling on civilians.
We traveled to three frontline communities surrounded by Ukrainian troops on one side, and Russian troops on the other. In Orikhiv, we witnessed just a sliver of what these communities are experiencing daily, when three shells, one after the other, landed about 100 yards away from where we were conducting an interview.
Our editor, Mark Boyer, and senior producer, Hanaan Sarhan, helped us craft an intimate and chilling story about what it’s like to be caught in a war.
I’ll be monitoring the comments to help answer any questions!
They are being shelled by Ukrainians too. They said so in your own film.
Well done, thanks for delivering facts about the war in my country. Your reports bring a lot of aid and compassion to us.
@nunliski They are . New York Times is BS.
Purandar Bhattacharya That poor women is ethnic Russian Ukrainian, oppressed in her country. What do you know?
What did the people say about The Azov Batallion?? Is that who these people are really afraid of?? You just can’t say it cause you work for a major western media corporation????
Slava Ukraine Heroaim Slava.💛💙🇺🇦🙏
Yermak is already on the Ukrainian front, defending his homeland?🎉
all amertcars alwase hate russai wew want tem dtstrod to never do this again
we want putin