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Film screening: 20 Days in Mariupol

The Warwick Ukraine-Belarus (WUB) Hub organised a screening of Mystyslav Chernov's Oscar-winning documentary film, 20 Days in Mariupol, in cooperation with Coventry Cathedral. Distressing but necessary viewing, the film documents the early days following Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, as Russia besieged the city of Mariupol.

The screening took place in the Chapter House of Coventry Cathedral. The cathedral, itself destroyed by wartime bombing and since rebuilt, provided a fitting venue for the event.

The audience also watched a short address recorded by the Mayor of Mariupol. Paul Hansbury then moderated a panel discussion among Olga Tokariuk (Chatham House OSUN Academy Fellow), Olena Miliienko (British Academy Research Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Warwick), Natalia Kogut (Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham), and Anna Dzhavaha (volunteer and Country Coordinator for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova with Amnesty International).

This was the third documentary screening WUB Hub has organised, after showing Andrei Sannikov's This Kind of Hope and Jon Parker's film Civil Resistance 2020.

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