A dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv, told by the people living through it.
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When Russia began its attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in February of 2022,
many people expected the city to fall in days. But the Ukrainians refused to surrender.
Now, a new FRONTLINE documentary tells the story of the battle for Kharkiv through the experiences of those who stayed in the city, despite the ever-present threat of the war.
Filmed during the first three months of the war, the documentary chronicles the experiences of people living through Russia’s attack: the displaced families trying to survive underground; the civilians caught in the fight; and the first responders risking their lives to help others.
“Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack” is a Basement Films production for GBH/FRONTLINE in association with Channel 4. Filmed, produced and directed by Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola; produced in Ukraine by Volodymyr Pavlov; directed in London by Teresa Smith. The editor is Agniezska Liggett. The production manager is Leah Downs. The executive producers are Ben de Pear, Edward Watts and Cate Blanchett. The executive producer and editor-in-chief for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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Chapters:
Prologue – 00:00
Russia’s Attack on Kharkiv – 00:58
What War in Ukraine Looks Like – 08:36
Ukraine’s First Responders – 12:08
Life in Kharkiv Moves Underground – 18:18
Under Russian Bombardment – 24:45
How Paramedics & Firefighters Respond in War – 31:18
Emerging from Underground in Kharkiv – 38:06
“United by This Tragedy” – 45:30
Credits – 51:57
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Is that the store that you guys put the homeless in then let it I'm sorry they sell the fire trucks as antiques and have money
You guys need to quit giving government another officials kickbacks just to take American people's tax dollars and other people's around the world cuz all you guys are the welfare state for these shimmy yourself swansky just shoving the money and his pockets and giving Joe Biden kick back
All you got it guys are the bunch of Nazis killing the Jewish Ukrainian people that's what they Putin come in you guys are killing your own people because you guys are Germans and they're Russian that's all you praying in they work for a living not like the Nazis Nazis are a bunch of lazy bums want money from American taxpayers people catching on here they're so saving money cuz maybe you can get
Russians killing Russian children… while pretending it's all to save Russians. Evil guys makeup evil lies. This will end with Putins soul in flames for all eternity. Putin will be the earth's newest, yet stupider Hitler.
Everything around the city is bombed why is it the roads that bomb that would be the first thing they would do before they bombed one building they were the bomb the roads where people couldn't get out
Another amazing Frontline documentary, PBS. Thank you for showing what the horrors of war look like. Slava Ukraine!
those grandmas that the paramedic says were left behind probably wouldn't budge. stubborn grandmothers! undefeatable.
I still cannot believe this was allowed to happen!! 😔
Maybe the Ukranians shouldn't have bombed civilians since 2014
Long live Ukraine
Ukraine is in ruin because the corrupt Zelensky is making money from the US weapons on the black market.
ATTACK ? No ! Wrong ! Russia is LIBERATING ! Liberating the White People of Ukraine from Zelenskyy's cruel and Hateful Jewish Dictatorship ! God Bless Russia ! God Bless Putin !
America: life with perpetual war since 1941. PBS doesn't care because they're one of spokes in the wheel of the Ministry of Propaganda who promotes war so death and hatred to mankind poisons their brainwashed minds. Establishment is back, normalcy has returned so the world free falls into chaos as they beat the drums of war across the lands. These are some sociopathic people programming more War Pigs with their Mass Formation Psychosis.
Ukraine needs to surrender.. I'm sick of these beggars getting a dime of my tax dollars.
So sad.. man god bless this evil world we live in. Prayers to everyone 🙏🏻
All these people hiking in the mountains calling themselves bad asses… You’re not I’m a Ukrainian first responder dodging debris and artillery to save lives while trying to survive in a bombed out wasteland kinda bad ass…
Fake news CNN
I'm grateful to PBS for presenting this documentary. I can only watch it in small segments, however, before falling apart in tears. It's important to witness the human cost of war. it also makes me question more closely the succession of distant, foreign wars waged by my own country, the United States. This view of war presented here — up close and personal –is something I needed to see as a global citizen, and it makes me hate war all the more. Diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy. Please.
Vehicle wheels spinning produces energy, da
We Americans could have done a lot more to have prevented most of this damage early in this war. We could have given those weapons so much sooner and some of this could have been prevented. If you look at the effect himars has had in the short time period it’s been in country it’s insane and speaks volumes to how weak Russia always was even before the war. We should be giving Ukraine whatever it needs because if we can’t stop Russia overtaking Ukraine, we might as well just hand the Chinese Taiwan on a silver platter.
Riddell me this; I am currently fighting a war to keep and protect my home, while at the same time I am buying someone else's home of 32 year out from under them and essentially leaving them homeless. Who am I?
The US has given upwards of 60 to 70 billion. Enough is enough with the inflation. Where are all the countries in Europe giving all their military supplies and billions and billions. Ukraine is not going to win this war.
Frontline is ground truth. It’s the MOST IMPORTANT source of information. It is indisputably accurate,honest and unimpeachable. In this age of ‘post-truth’ active lies and liars and blatant propaganda the real people of the world can turn to Frontline for at least a bit of reality. I thank them!! The organization is a bulwark of democracy. I only wish there were 100 Frontlines in operation in every language of people. Thank you all Frontline journalists from bottom of my heart. The need for simple truth is paramount. Keep up the awesome work. The ‘Truth’ might set us free IF- if we can obtain it. The ‘people’ are desperate for honest factual reporting!!!
I hate to say it; but this is what can happen when a Russian hijacks an American genius to help him control or influence millions of people and a movie star takes over! It's happened here and it will continue to happen…
War is BS… whoever start it is fking lunatic.
No fuking idea WTF some delusional ppl wanna archive, it definitely messed up ppls’ life. Shame Russian and Ukrainian were once brothers and fought nazi together …
Old actor man is a delighting model of keeping spirit up 🙂
Can one of the world's billionaires offer, just one of their billions to off that reptile Putin?
I don't want to imagine what it's like there. My heart is broken to see these people having to live though this. We pray for them from Canada 🇨🇦 . Please be safe as you can. I'm so sorry you have to endure all this. Thank you for your segment, very well done. Peace and Glory to Ukraine.
The 32+ dead in Gaza today flood my mind as I watch Ukraine persevere under the kind of bombardment Palestinians also know all too well, and for far longer.
Putin: "There is no such thing as a separate Ukrainian people, they are one with the Russians. The state of Ukraine is an artificial creation, a fluke of history that should be grateful to Russia for allowing it to exist.”
Golda Meir: "There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state?"
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"When were Palestinians born? What was all of this area before the First World War when Britain got the Mandate over Palestine? What was Palestine, then? Palestine was then the area between the Mediterranean and the Iraqian border. East and West Bank was Palestine. I am a Palestinian, from 1921 and 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport. There was no such thing in this area as Jews, and Arabs, and Palestinians, There were Jews and Arabs. […] I don't say there are no Palestinians, but I say there is no such thing as a distinct Palestinian people."
TRUTH BE TOLD, … UKRAIE WAS 'NOT" A PERFECT STATE. THEY HAD ASKED TO JOIN N.A.T.O. , SEVERAL TIMES, BUT BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY . THEY WERE NOTALLOWED. THEY IN TRUTH , WERE ALMOST AS BAD AS , RUSSIA.. DO NOT BE FOOLED!
War of aggression is unacceptable in every way. The ultimate price for starting such conflicts should be death by firing squad of entire governments and all of their families. Being a bystander in such a war is no different than giving it a green light.
They can always thank Zelensky for engaging them in a proxy war!
You can thank not only the Putin administration but the Zelenskyy administration, Biden administration, Trudeau administration and every other corrupt administration involved with NATO for all the death and destruction.
It’s quite entertaining to watch Ukraine become a graveyard for russian imperialism. Fascist russia’s economy has been slowly crumbling for over a decade and is now in a deep recession. Even before their genocidal war against Ukrainians, they had the world’s 2nd highest suicide rate, 3rd highest alcoholism & drug overdose death rate and number 1 world’s highest COVID excess death rate🥇😂 Now thanks to sanctions, russians are going bankrupt and dying at record speed. Even motherussia’s only pride and joy, their huge military is getting absolutely decimated & exposed on the battlefield by the much smaller Ukrainian forces. russian fascists are as murderous as nazi German soldiers but also more drunk, cowardly and incompetent. It makes me so proud to know over 41,000 russian fascist invaders have been “demilitarized” thanks to Western weapon systems (Javelins, NLAWs, Bayraktars, Stingers, M777s, HIMRS) used by Ukrainian warriors. Not only we save Europe from cancerous russian imperialism but also prove fascist russia’s military is a joke against modern NATO technologies. 🇺🇦🤘🏻
People need to remember how the orange clown pushed the weakening of NATO and praised Putin.
this guy is the same voice behind UFC countdown. gives me chills😵💫
A one-sided, biased story spiced with sugar and tears.
All this misery – for nothing. The men in the Suits here and there govern to stay rich, why the normal people are dying invain. This is the human history since thousands of years.
Russia will pay for this,their country will never be the same after this invasion. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Never ending neocon propaganda channel
The world watches and our hearts go out to people of Ukraine. We and our future generations will not let Russia forget the war crimes until it compensates Ukraine appropriately.
Frontline is in actual traitor to its people they're not telling you the truth could you really think Russia could bomb all those buildings before Russia even went into their Border Lines sorry to say people and I know people will talk s*** about me but it's okay they're on Infantry Army did this to their people not the whole infantry Army but a few selected Rogue traders to their country went after their own people it is so sad
This war makes me so angry…these stalwart humans reduced to live so hard…I wake up praying and begging God for the end to the suffering.
That was good, I would like to see more diversity in our reporting though, the rich, the poor, the worst and best of.
Respect to the people of Kharkiv, and the filmmakers for this excellent portrayal. 🇺🇦💪