Kyrylo Svetashov

Three-part documentary chronicling Ukraine’s military peacekeeping missions in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa, showing decades of operations in conflict zones and their impact on Ukraine’s international role.

On the eve of Easter, an icon depicting the Ethiopian Mother of God enters a Ukrainian village. After the icon is noticed by regular parishioners, a conflict begins between the young priest and his flock. Peasants do not agree to have a dark-skinned Mother of God in the church. One night someone makes his way to the church and cuts the icon. After the night events, the icon begins to pour myrrh.

The war in Yugoslavia attracted the attention of the whole world. That's where the first one went in 1992 peacekeeping contingent of Ukraine. But bringing peace and salvation they could not imagine what enemy will have to face.

A story of the Ukrainian peacekeepers who arrived in 1993 in Georgia, where the war with the Abkhaz was going on. Fifteen helicopters from the Ukrainian side reached their destination in just twenty-four hours. The peacekeeping mission witnessed horrific events.

A married couple of artists is creating a mosaic on the wall of a cultural space in Kyiv. They work in the upcycling technique, drawing inspiration from Kyiv's mosaics made during Soviet times.

Each of us has written this essay at some point. It happens every September 1st, yet somehow it always catches you off guard. Do children from different parts of Ukraine feel life differently or, on the contrary, similarly? What do they have in common, and what sets them apart? We are used to hearing stories about «vacations by the sea», «bike rides», and «sports victories». But what will teenagers in modern Ukraine tell us? Will their lives look somehow different? Or is even the war unable to cancel their youth and passion for life, emotions, and adventures?

A short documentary.