Occupied BBC World Service
Warning: Distressing images of war and description of torture. On March 1 Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, watched Russian tanks roll down his street. As his world, like many Ukrainians, turned upside down, he secretly started filming everything around him, sensing history in the making, and sharing the footage with BBC Eye. Subscribe Over the next three months Dmytro records his citys resistance. Acts of defiance, including large demonstrations are followed by a violent crackdown. The city changes. Food and medicine become scarce. Russian military vehicles marked with the Z speed up and down Kherson streets. Shelling is heard round the clock. Many people flee. Friends and prominent local people start to disappear others are put through mock executions. As the Russians make their intentions clearer, Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shelter their fiveyearold daughter Ksusha from what is happening.
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