
100th anniversary of the battles for Mount Lysonya
2016, 13 min
Ternopil branch of the National Television Company of Ukraine, 2016. The program "Through the Lens of TTB" is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the battles for Mount Lysonya and the reconstruction of the events.
On the video: reconstruction of battles; military tents; military transport; weapons; memorial plaque dedicated to the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen; memorial chapel on Lysonya Mountain near the city of Berezhany; flags of Ukraine and the OUN; chapel murals; festive concert.
Comment: reenactor in the role of the USS Legion swarm commander Maksym Volodarsky; reenactor in the role of the Russian Army staff captain Yevhen Ivanov (speaks russian); historian Mykola Lazarovych; daughter of Sich rifleman Maksym Ostrovsky Nadiya Ostrovska; rebel Stepan Grubar; son of Hero of Ukraine Roman Shukhevych Yuriy-Bogdan Shukhevych; head of the SBU (2006–2010; 2014–2015) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko; artist Bohdan Tkachyk; head of the regional state administration (2015–2019) Stepan Barna; band Kozak System; ATO fighter Valeriy Chobotar; musician Oleksandr Polozhynskyi.
The program was worked on by: Hanna Vasylenko, Pavlo Yaschyschak, Andriy Kapusta, and Oleg Kachurovsky.
Reference: The battles for Mount Lysonya were battles between the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen regiment and Russian troops in August-September 1916, during the First World War, during which the offensive of the russian empire forces on the city of Berezhany was stopped.