Last year, Vika and her family were living in a Ukrainian subway station to escape Russian bombardment. Where are they now, almost one year after the war began?
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Vika and her family shared their story in the August 2022 FRONTLINE documentary “Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack.” An updated version of the documentary, premiering Tues., Feb. 14 on PBS and online, revisits many of the people profiled in the original film and shares how months of war have reshaped their lives.
In this excerpt, see where Vika and her family are today.
For updates on other people who were featured in “Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack,” watch an updated version the documentary Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, at 10/9c on PBS stations (check local listings), at pbs.org/frontline, in the PBS Video App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
“Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack” is a Basement Films production for GBH/FRONTLINE in association with Channel 4. The documentary was filmed, produced and directed by Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola; produced in Ukraine by Volodymyr Pavlov; and directed in London by Teresa Smith. The editor is Agniezska Liggett. The production manager is Leah Gowns. The executive producers are Ben de Pear, Edward Watts and Cate Blanchett. The editor-in-chief and executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
Explore additional reporting related to “Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack” on our website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/ukraine-life-under-russias-attack/
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Mr. Putin…STOP! This War!
Everyone repeat after me!
Start sending it out Now! To All media's.
It will eventually reach his ears!
Recall that in the Donbas during the military conflict, hundreds of children were killed and wounded, as well as missing. Children of Donbass Ukraine were killed for 8 years. No one in the West dared to speak in their defense. According to the UN human rights monitoring mission, during the conflict period from April 14, 2014 to April 30, 2021, 152 children (including 102 boys and 50 girls) were killed on the territory of Donbass, 146 more children were injured (of which 120 boys and 26 girls).
Until now, children in the front-line areas, together with their parents, descend into basements during the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, do their homework there, and sleep.
Alley of Angels in Donetsk – a memorial in memory of the dead children. The name of the 91st child is engraved on a granite slab – the youngest was not even a year old. They were killed by bullets and shell fragments fired by the nationalists at peaceful cities and towns. Children in the DPR are still dying after shelling of residential areas, the number of victims has already exceeded a hundred.
The military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who voluntarily laid down their arms and refused to fight, were shown the Alley of Angels in Donetsk – they knelt down and cried.
The meanness and cynicism of the Kyiv authorities has no boundaries. They are really worthy heirs of their 'heroes', whom they glorify by wearing their portraits in torchlight processions on the streets of Kiev, zigzagging in the squares, thus imitating the bastards who brutally destroyed women and children, the elderly and all those who disagreed with the occupation regime of Germany, burning them alive and shooting down entire villages.
July 27 is a day of remembrance for the children who died in the Donbass – on this day in 2014, the Horlivka Madonna died – Kristina Zhuk with a 10-month-old baby in her arms was hit by a Ukrainian missile fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine at peaceful Horlivka. To this day, the Kiev regime is killing the little angels of Donbass.
Respect to all Ukrainians! 💙💛
It is amazing what people can do when they need to.
Blessings to all
Puck Phutin
Russia is the absolute worst
Elon Musk would totally sell these good people out to Putin while excusing Russian war crimes because Musk is a shallow narcissistic little alt-right troll turd, not much smarter and no more honorable than Trump in the long run. Plus he's just a dork.
Lots of replies here I can't see . I guess the troll factory in St Petersberg has me on block lol Love the attitude of the boy and his Grandpa . Ukraine will win , russia will destroy itself and the world will move on to better times . Slava Ukraini !
Zelenskyy should gets life in prison for deceive Ukrainians people Zelenskyy was made by CIA ! Zelenskyy works for Washington DC not for Ukraine! He should go to prison for rejecting any negotiation of peace and protect it from a war did you people remember when the very first week of the invasion Putin was asking zelensky for peace negotiation the only thing he asked was to Zelenskyy not allowing his enemies NATO extended territory with a military on his borders BUT zelensky rejected😮😢Us told Zelenskyy to make any peace agreement with Russia 🇷🇺 because US think they could fight Russia destroy and humiliate Russia 👿 so didn’t happened !
USA and west Europeans countries have this evils and ARROGANT plan to bleed Russia economy with sanctions isolated Russia from the rest of world and use their powerful media to destroy Putin reputation 😈and finally break Russia and take control of their resources gas oil gold and ect! Russia is blessed with bravery they won’t allowed 😊😅
to negotiate this war from the beginning instead he was working
That little twerp drank his own Kool Aid and believed he was Alexander The Great. And now hundreds of thousands are dying for his clueless blundering.
The translation is not correct at places. They speak remarkable RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. They are after all Russian people.
this is ruskiy mir
💙💛 prayers and continued support for Ukraine 🇺🇦
"NATO is a suicide pill to the world. So if you want peace, pray for a Russian victory." ~Col. Scott Ritter
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
Still avoiding Putin's cowardly, in-the-back warmongering.
This American is rooting for Russia
We have to help the courageous Ukrainians throw the bloody orcs back out of their country! Slava Ukraini from Canada!
Make no mistakes. If not for the west there will be no war.
It's a shame that taxpayers have to fund this propagated conflict.
Ukraine was conducting ethnic cleansing of the Russian speaking peoples of Donetsk/luhansk region for 8 years. Ukraines own citizens! 1/3 are ethnic Russian, they banned their language, t.v. channels, shut down their churches, burned 47 ppl alive in Odessa, 16k dead civilians. Ukraine should have followed the Minsk accords. But genocide was more important. So big Daddy Putin Bear is coming to the protection of the baby bears in Ukraine. Why is kyiv not flattened? Because Russia has compassion, its a special military intervention. Would America go in light handed? Or would we have done shock & awe?
And what is NATO doing to ferment rebellion in Russia against their diabolical oppressor one Psychopath Putin ? Nothing noticeable .
God isn't the one keeping them alive. The men and women putting their lives at risk are the ones to thank! Religious nuts