Ukrainians would like to watch comedies - but for now their culture is defined by war
2 hours ago Share Save Sarah Rainsford Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent, in Kyiv Share Save
BBC The Kyiv Opera's latest show, Patriots, is a rock opera which features popular anthems of Ukrainian independence
I've never heard an audience so silent. When the credits rolled on a screening of 2000 metres to Andriivka, no-one in the Kyiv cinema moved. Their popcorn and beer were mostly untouched. The documentary by Mstyslav Chernov is a frontline film so intense you feel like you're trapped in the terrifying trenches alongside the soldiers. Watching that in Ukraine, a country under fire, the intensity is multiplied. At the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, as society mobilised to defend itself, Ukraine had
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