Chornobyl 22

In early 2022, a local informant secretly recorded Russian troop movements in the occupied Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, while the workers of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station shared their experiences during the Russian military takeover of their facility. This film, produced for The Reckoning: Ukraine Testifies project, meticulously documents and probes Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

'As the Russian army had occupied the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the Chornobyl Zone in February 2022, what had previously seemed to be totally unthinkable was actually our new reality. I've been closely following the developments during the five-week-long occupation of the Chornobyl Zone. Soon after this territory was liberated, I travelled there to document Russian war crimes in Chornobyl as part of The Reckoning Project - an international team of documentarians and lawyers who employ their skills to ensure accountability of the Russian war criminals and facilitate future court cases against the Russian Federation in criminal courts.' - Oleksiy RADYNSKI