Russia’s multi-tentacled Wagner Group is not just sending mercenaries to the Ukrainian front lines. It’s also at the vanguard of Putin’s effort to counter Western cultural dominance, and using movies to do it.
Others think it refers to the battle of Popasna where, once the fighting had ended, the severed head and hands of a Ukrainian prisoner of war were discovered impaled on a wooden pole. Released online, the movie received wide coverage and was lauded for its realism.
was shot, edited and released while the actual combatants and survivors of the battles in Mariupol and Popasna — both of which ended last May with Russian victories — were still collecting and mourning their dead. Seen in that light, the most striking feature of That a current event of such magnitude and tragedy was so quickly and seamlessly transformed into stylized movie fare is a feature of what former National Security Adviser H.R McMaster calls “Russian new generation warfare.
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