'Thank God They're Still Alive': Update on 'Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack' Family | FRONTLINE

Last year, Vika and her family were living in a Ukrainian subway station to escape Russian bombardment. Where are they now, almost one year after the war began?

Vika and her family shared their story in the August 2022 FRONTLINE documentary "Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack." An updated version of the documentary, premiering Tues., Feb. 14 on PBS and online, revisits many of the people profiled in the original film and shares how months of war have reshaped their lives.

In this excerpt, see where Vika and her family are today.

"Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack" is a Basement Films production for GBH/FRONTLINE in association with Channel 4. The documentary was filmed, produced and directed by Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola; produced in Ukraine by Volodymyr Pavlov; and directed in London by Teresa Smith. The editor is Agniezska Liggett. The production manager is Leah Gowns. The executive producers are Ben de Pear, Edward Watts and Cate Blanchett. The editor-in-chief and executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

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[p.h.]

So horrible. In our village a lady from Charkiw is living with her daughter and 2 grand-daughters. Her son is living in Crimea, they are Russian by origin, her son-in-law is Ukrainan. All their lives are broken, everything is gone. Her son-in-law (Ukrainian) is fighting her son (Crimean). It is just unthinkable. She has lost her job, her good income, now she is psycologically completely broke and physically empoverished. 😱🙄😫😳🤮 She has nowhere to go back to. 😱

[julianwilkins]

It is amazing what people can do when they need to.
Blessings to all

[LisaNH]

this is ruskiy mir

💙💛 prayers and continued support for Ukraine 🇺🇦

[pawshands]

Blessings and protection for all humans living through illegal occupation and wars. This world has so many now.

[janedoe]

God Be With You All, Praying for Peace and Healing 💜💜💜

[antoninagarkalna]

Recall that in the Donbas during the military conflict, hundreds of children were killed and wounded, as well as missing. Children of Donbass Ukraine were killed for 8 years. No one in the West dared to speak in their defense. According to the UN human rights monitoring mission, during the conflict period from April 14, 2014 to April 30, 2021, 152 children (including 102 boys and 50 girls) were killed on the territory of Donbass, 146 more children were injured (of which 120 boys and 26 girls).
Until now, children in the front-line areas, together with their parents, descend into basements during the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, do their homework there, and sleep.
Alley of Angels in Donetsk - a memorial in memory of the dead children. The name of the 91st child is engraved on a granite slab - the youngest was not even a year old. They were killed by bullets and shell fragments fired by the nationalists at peaceful cities and towns. Children in the DPR are still dying after shelling of residential areas, the number of victims has already exceeded a hundred.
The military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who voluntarily laid down their arms and refused to fight, were shown the Alley of Angels in Donetsk - they knelt down and cried.
The meanness and cynicism of the Kyiv authorities has no boundaries. They are really worthy heirs of their 'heroes', whom they glorify by wearing their portraits in torchlight processions on the streets of Kiev, zigzagging in the squares, thus imitating the bastards who brutally destroyed women and children, the elderly and all those who disagreed with the occupation regime of Germany, burning them alive and shooting down entire villages.
July 27 is a day of remembrance for the children who died in the Donbass - on this day in 2014, the Horlivka Madonna died - Kristina Zhuk with a 10-month-old baby in her arms was hit by a Ukrainian missile fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine at peaceful Horlivka. To this day, the Kiev regime is killing the little angels of Donbass.

[balaclavabob]

Lots of replies here I can't see . I guess the troll factory in St Petersberg has me on block lol Love the attitude of the boy and his Grandpa . Ukraine will win, russia will destroy itself and the world will move on to better times . Slava Ukraini !

[marshuswp]

We have to help the courageous Ukrainians throw the bloody orcs back out of their country! Slava Ukraini from Canada!

[caveloc]

It's a shame that taxpayers have to fund this propagated conflict.

[liberty-matrix]

"NATO is a suicide pill to the world. So if you want peace, pray for a Russian victory." ~Col. Scott Ritter

[TheCommunicationCoach]

Still avoiding Putin's cowardly, in-the-back warmongering.

[Benmeglei]

Make no mistakes. If not for the west there will be no war.

[saraswatiputra]

The translation is not correct at places. They speak remarkable RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. They are after all Russian people.