Ich habe einen Dokumentarfilm über meine vierte humanitäre Mission an der Front der Ukraine gedreht

Hi everyone, please allow me to explain myself here, since body text was not allowed directly in the post.

I wasn’t sure whether to post my 60 minute Ukraine documentary publicly. I’ve been hesitating back and forth. I’m not a soldier. I’m not Ukrainian. I am a foreign humanitarian and medical volunteer. What I experienced doesn’t come close to what so many have lived through, and I don’t want to pretend that it does.

Over the past year, I volunteered on four separate humanitarian missions to Ukraine. I delivered supplies and aid to Kherson three times now, helping where I could, and spent my Summer in the Eastern part of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast transporting wounded soldiers who were injured. In the meantime, I fell in love with Kyiv and Lviv. Now, in December, I took part in bringing more aid and Christmas gifts to children on the frontline communities.

This was going to be my last ever humanitarian mission due to external circumstances, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt a responsibility to document what I was seeing and show it to the world in the only way I knew how: by communicating everything that I have come to know and interviewing locals to give them a voice too.

Because it feels like we’re maybe closer to the end of this war than the beggining. And in the last 10 minutes, more than ever, the world needs to see what’s still happening. The drone strikes, the war crimes, the human safari, the friends lost, but most importantly the people who stay, show kindness, and defy the insane dystopia that the Russian Federation has inflicted.

I tried to make something honest. Not sensational. If this documentary does anything, I hope it reminds people that Ukraine is not yesterday’s news. That there are still families 10km or less from Russian positions who deserve to be seen, not hunted by drones, and I know because I’ve spent time with them.

I’m happy to answer any questions that don’t endanger my privacy.

All the best,

Слава Україні! Вічна пам’ять полеглим героям.