Ukraine: The Lost Paradise

The Reckoning Project interviews Viktor Marunyak.

Ukraine: The Lost Paradise

The Reckoning Project interviews Viktor Marunyak.

youtube video thumbnail for video jqe586dyNWM
Video courtesy The Reckoning Project.
Monday, 20 February, 2023

Viktor Marunyak, the elected mayor of Stara Zbirjuvka, Ukraine, recounts what happened to his town and to him when Russian invaders arrived in February 2022.

Marunyak, now in exile in Latvia, figures prominently in a new article by Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum and the Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk (See: ‘They Didn’t Understand Anything, But Just Spoiled People’s Lives’). This film is excerpted from a forthcoming documentary by the Reckoning Project, a multinational group of journalists and researchers documenting war crimes committed in the current conflict.

Video courtesy The Reckoning Project.

Frontline Updates
Support local journalists