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Oleksandra Kalinichenko

Oleksandra Kalinichenko is a freelance journalist and a website editor at the Ukrainian film streaming platform Takflix. She pursues a degree in film studies at the Kyiv National Ivan Karpenko-Kary Theater, Cinema and Television University.

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What’s going on in Ukraine? Watch these films to understand Russia’s ongoing war

by Oleksandra Kalinichenko
Editor's Note: The selection was provided by Takflix, a Ukrainian streaming platform, and approved by the Kyiv Independent. This isn't sponsored content. Although Russia’s war against Ukraine has been going non-stop since 2014, many around the world have just learned about Moscow’s aggression due to the growing threat of its escalation. The war in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas killed more than 13,000 people, while 1.4 million others were internally displaced, leaving Ukraine with trem