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Director Of ‘Russians At War’ Doc Bats Back Suggestions Of Whitewashing: “We Have To Humanize Everyone. This Is A Huge Tragedy For Our Region” – Venice
Anastasia Trofimova embedded with a Russian army battalion for doc giving rare insight into lives of Russian troops in Ukraine
Estimates are varied but between 66,000 to 120,000 Russian soldiers are reported to have died in the invasion, with equally heavy military casualties on the Ukrainian side, as well as more than 23,000 civilian deaths. Trofimova was asked at the Venice press conference on whether it was “ethical” to humanize Russian soldiers, in light of war crimes committed by the Russia’s army during its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Trofimova was later pressed by a journalist from Reuters news agency on whether the film was an attempt to whitewash the image of Russian troops, in the face of documented war crimes such as the Bucha massacre, in which more than 450 people were killed in the early days of Russia’s invasion.
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