Special Project “Ilovaisk,” 2018

NSTU, 2018. The documentary film "08.2014. A Story of the Events in Ilovaisk" features testimonies from participants in the battles in Ilovaisk, their stories of joining the military, memories of the fallen soldiers shared by their loved ones, and footage and video clips that reconstruct the chronology of events in late August 2014 in the city of Donetsk and its surroundings.

On the video: opening scenes from the film; military decorations; photographs of soldiers and fallen heroes; military vehicles and troops on the move; heavy weaponry; the flag of russia; the flag of the so-called dnr; russian soldiers; captured russian soldiers; shelling; evacuation of the wounded; wrecked vehicles; a column of Ukrainian troops leaving Ilovaisk.

People featured in the video: the mothers of the fallen heroes: Yevgenia (call sign “Red”) Kharchenko — Natalia Kharchenko; Oleksiy (call sign “Zmiy”) Goray — Nelya Goray; Maksym (call sign “Tracer”) Sukhenko — Nina Sukhenko; participants in the events: Serhiy “Klym” Klymenko (speaking in russian), a sniper in the sniper platoon of the Special Purpose Battalion of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion; scout Mykhailo “Koka” Kukharets; Ihor “Pianist” Mykhailyshyn, a grenade launcher operator; Hanna “Murka” Ilyushchenkova, a medic.

The following people worked on the film: Kateryna Feleniuk, Oleksii Muliavin, Oleh Chelakhov, Volodymyr Lykhodid, Yuliia Oher, Denys Yarovyi, Oleksii Muliavin, Yevheniia Melnyk, Tetiana Kyselchuk.