(VIDEO TRAILER) Sputnik has aired an emotionally powerful documentary which details the firsthand experiences of its special photo correspondent Valery Melnikov; the film shares the name of the series of photos he took in Lugansk Republic in the summer of 2014; when he arrived in Donbass, “the feeling of an impending disaster was already in the air.”
Sputnik has aired a documentary which reveals the wartime experiences of its special photo correspondent Valery Melnikov, which was made with the help of photographer Andrey Lyubimov and shares the name of the series of photos Melnikov captured amid the bombings and bloodshed.
Entitled “Black Days of Ukraine”, the documentary explicitly reveals the dramatic and historic events which took place in Lugansk Region, which fought government troops for its independence in the summer of 2014.
The documentary was the winner of several prestigious international awards, including, among others, World Report Award 2015, Visual Storytelling Awards 2015, Sony WPA 2015, and Days Japan International Photo Journalism Award 2015.
