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Sean Penn, who has two Academy Awards, gifted one of his Oscar trophies to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to the capital Kyiv.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic War onscreen, whether fictive or documentary, is often a sort of highlight reel: the excitement and terror of battle, cities in flames, the devastated aftermath. It’s infrequent that a film dedicate itself to the disorientation of civilian survival in a long-term war zone, when everyday life goes on to an extent despite a surreal atmosphere of constant threat, and the uncertainty of any future at all. That largely interior state is what director Olga Chernykh seeks to capture in “A Picture to Remember,” which opened the 2023 International Documentary Film Festival.

Superpower, Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s doc about Ukraine’s fight for freedom, is getting a launch in the war-torn Eastern European country today.

The Berlin Film Festival today announced that Sean Penn will debut the documentary he shot in Ukraine with Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Berlin next month.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has survived following an incident which saw a car slam into his motorcade.

President Volodymyr Zelensky is alive after a car ploughed into his motorcade in Kyiv.

Hollywood star Jessica Chastain accepted a “beautiful” painting from a young girl during a “life-changing” trip to Ukraine where she had the “opportunity to meet incredible children”. The Oscar-winning actress, who visited capital Kyiv in early August, said she needed a few weeks to “process everything” she saw there. On Thursday, she shared a video documenting the visit to Ohmatdyt children’s hospital, where she was given a handmade painting by a young girl.

K.J. Yossman Ukraine won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Italy on Saturday night. The country was represented by hip hop act Kalush Orchestra with the song “Stefania,” a tribute to lead singer Oleh Psiuk’s mother Stefania, which merges Ukrainian folklore with rap.The U.K.

A Ukrainian missile reportedly 'hit a Russian warship', which the Russian military said sank while it was being towed to a port after being badly damaged. The cruiser, which is the flagship of the Russian Military's Black Sea fleet, was gutted by fire and later sank in a storm after being targeted on Wednesday (April 13).

Vladimir Putin has drafted 130,000 conscripts into the Russian army in a desperate attempt to turn around his stalled invasion, according to western officials.

Wilson Chapman editorThe Academy Awards’ starry red carpet is often the first place  to see which attendees are using their outfits to make a statement.At this year’s red carpet, many celebrities showed up sporting blue ribbons provided by the United Nations Refugee Agency. These blue ribbons sport the hashtag #withrefugees, referring to the refugee crisis caused by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in solidarity with all people forced to flee oppression.See more: Oscars Red Carpet ArrivalsIndividuals who showed up to the red carpet sporting the pins included Jamie Lee Curtis, Samuel L.

A Ukrainian band has posted a video to social media asking to be included in the Concert For Ukraine being staged by ITV and STV later this month.The video posted by Antytila addressed Ed Sheeran, who has been confirmed as one of the acts to play the upcoming concert, which will raise monies for the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Their message to Sheeran was recorded on the streets of Kyiv where the band members – wearing combat gear in the video – are part of the army fighting against the Russian invasion.They stated: “Hello Ed, greetings from Kyiv! We are Ukrainian musicians of the Ukrainian band Antytila – one of the most popular Ukrainian bands with a lot of fans in Ukraine and all over the world. In peacetime, our concerts gather at stadiums.

Editors note: In Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline, the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and author of Only Cry for the Living: Memos From Inside the ISIS Battlefield reports from the battlefields of Ukraine, where Russia’s invasion is targeting journalists and the truth.

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Volunteer soldier Adam Ennis ’s friends have told of his “last supper” lunch before departing for the front line in Ukraine.

Russia could be about to accept a truce if Ukraine adopts an Austrian-Swedish-like military status, as negotiations continue between the two countries.

A Glasgow delivery driver put his life on the line to rescue his friend's wife and newborn from the Romania-Ukraine border.

Russia would face a “dramatic increased response” from the West if Vladimir Putin uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, a Tory minister warned.

Editor’s note: In Hollie McKay’s newest special report for Deadline, the seasoned foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author is still in Ukraine, where Vladimir Putin’s invasion is turning increasingly brutal & resistance is intensifying.

Christopher Vourlias Before the Russian army launched an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, French war correspondent Loup Bureau was embedded in Donbass, the restive borderland in Eastern Ukraine, which since 2014 has been the site of an ongoing conflict between Russian-backed separatist groups and Ukrainian government forces.Reports were circulating of an impending Russian attack. Bureau, who had already spent time in the region while shooting his feature-length documentary “Trenches” – screening next week at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – expected it to be a localized skirmish.

Deadly ultra-modern fighter jets worth £100million have arrived in the UK and will “make Putin sweat”, according to a military source.

Russia is preparing to carry out public executions in conquered Ukrainian cities in an effort to break morale, it has been claimed.

K.J. Yossman British journalist Stuart Ramsay has been shot and wounded while reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.Ramsay, Sky News’ chief correspondent, was driving along a freeway towards Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv alongside camera operator Richie Mockler, producers Dominique Van Heerden and Martin Vowles, and local producer Andrii Lytvynenko on Monday Feb. 28 when their car was ambushed by Russians, who showered it in a hail of bullets.Despite the Sky News team shouting that they were journalists, the shooting did not stop.

As Russian president Valdamir Putin declared war on Ukraine last week, Ukraine has been on the fore-front of everyone's minds.The Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv has been bombarded with strikes as Russia has continued its offensive on its Eastern European neighbours. With the harrowing news coming from the ongoing war, Ukraine and its capital city has been the forefront of everyone's minds. And the spelling and pronunciation of its capital city has also been called into question as people continue to share support for Ukraine.

Actor Sean Penn has told fans that he 'walked miles' to the Polish border after being caught up in the Ukraine invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been thrust into the spotlight as Russian forces attempt to take over the country. Zelensky, 44, has bravely remained in the capital city Kyiv with his family, which includes his wife, First Lady Olena Zelenska, and their two children. With civilians fleeing the country in droves as the whole world watches Vladimir Putin‘s military invasion of Ukraine, Olena is standing by her husband and commending the Ukrainian people’s courage and bravery. “I am proud to live with you in the same country!” she said in an Instagram post on Feb. 25. “Today I will not have panic. I will be calm and confident. My children are looking at me. I will be next to them. And next to my husband. And with you.” Here’s everything to know about Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska.

A mushroom cloud has been seen billowing in the sky after an explosion at a gas pipeline near a Ukrainian city.

Like so many of Manchester's Ukranian community, Stefan Jajecznyk watched in horror as President Vladimir Putin launched his all-out invasion on Thursday.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Sky News has decided to air two daily, hour-long specials dedicated to covering the crisis across its TV, radio and digital/social media platforms.Starting on Monday (Feb. 28), the British outlet will air the specials each day at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m — with programming coming from Sky News’ team of correspondents both on the ground and at home.

Vice boss Nancy Dubuc has praised her colleagues in the field in Ukraine as bombing continues in the capital Kyiv, while taking a swipe at traditional news coverage.

Russia has sent over 10,000 Chechen fighters to Ukraine as fears grow the conflict will turn into a horrific slaughter.

As the people of Ukraine wake up to the reality of war, many of the country’s top filmmakers and industry professionals have issued statements pleading for international intervention.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCNN has switched into full-battle mode to cover the fast-moving implications of the fighting in Ukraine, the first large-scale invasive war in Europe in more than 70 years.After months of preparation, the invasion by Russian forces began before dawn, following a TV address from Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow. It was followed just minutes later by explosions in several towns across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv (aka Kiev).The WarnerMedia-owned CNN had similarly readied its own troops at points inside Ukraine and across the border in Russia, from where the invading forces sprang.“We’ve had a ‘dynamic live experience,’ what we would previously have called a live blog, operating for a few days already, and will of course keep up the digital news operations.

Vladimir Putin has warned the West that an attempt to interfere with Russia's invasion of Ukraine would lead to "consequences never encountered in your history".

Thousands of Brits are preparing to flee Ukraine amid fears Russia will invade within days.