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Ukraine's wartime action thriller 'Killhouse' reaches global audience on Netflix

by Kate Tsurkan

Ukraine's new action film "Killhouse" is set to reach a global audience, hitting the Netflix streaming platform on June 26 in Ukraine, with international distribution planned for autumn. Few scenes hit as hard in "Killhouse" as when Ukrainian soldiers decide to launch a high-risk mission to rescue a near-death civilian from the gray zone, a territory sandwiched between Ukrainian and Russian lines. In the film, the Russian commander watching them from his position assumes that the civilian bein

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As Ukraine's Crimea campaign grows, so does its underground resistance

As Ukraine's Crimea campaign grows, so does its underground resistance

While Ukraine intensifies its campaign against Russian military infrastructure in occupied Crimea, underground resistance has been spreading behind Russian lines. As hope of Crimea's eventual liberation increases among Ukrainians there, so does the number of volunteers eager to bring Ukraine's victory closer. The Resistance Movement within Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) told the Kyiv Independent the number of people contacting it through secure channels increased after successful att

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