Documentary “Give Me Back My Name” by war correspondent Marian Kushnir presented in Kyiv

According to Ukrinform, the event was reported by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Center for Civil Liberties on Facebook.

Today, more than 80,000 people are considered missing. The film tells the stories of soldiers of this war who hold the status of “missing in action,” the process of returning the bodies of fallen Ukrainian defenders, their identification and the restoration of their names, as well as the families who spend years living in search and uncertainty.

Among the film’s protagonists is Oleksii Yukov, head of the Platsdarm Association, which has been searching for the remains of fallen soldiers for years, as well as families of the missing, including a woman who, within one year, became a wife, a mother, and a widow.

The event was attended by Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head of the Center for Civil Liberties and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Stephen Capus, President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Following the screening, a discussion took place with the film’s author — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty frontline correspondent Marian Kushnir, who has been covering Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2015.

The film “Give Me Back My Name” was created with the support of the Pulitzer Center (USA). The event was funded by the European Union.

As previously reported by Ukrinform, President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded war correspondent Marian Kushnir the Order of Courage after he rescued a four-year-old child from a burning apartment following a Russian drone strike on a residential building in Bilohorodka, Kyiv region, on the night of January 28.

Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / Ukrinform