法国战争记者卢普局在俄罗斯的“残酷”乌克兰入侵中：“这是每个城市的整体混乱”
French War Reporter Loup Bureau on Russia’s ‘Brutal’ Ukraine Invasion: ‘It Was Total Chaos in Every City’
在2月24日俄罗斯军队入侵乌克兰之前，法国战争通讯员洛普局（Lup Bureau政府军报告正在散布即将来临的俄罗斯袭击。局已经在该地区度过了一段时间，同时拍摄了他的长篇纪录片“ Trenches”（下周在塞萨洛尼基纪录片节上放映），他预计这将是一场本地的小规模冲突。但是，在席卷该国大部分地区的全面袭击的凌晨，俄罗斯入侵的范围变得明确。他们决定前往约450英里外的乌克兰首都基夫。旅程花了两天时间。“这非常非常困难。在几个小时内，没有汽油站的燃料。 ATM中没有钱。”记者告诉Variety。 “每个城市都是混乱的。”局在基辅度过了四天，这座城市在乌克兰的近六年中感觉就像是第二座房屋。他的大多数朋友已经离开了。其他人，例如他的朋友和固定人 - 基辅的本地人，与他一起前往唐巴斯（Donbass），他决定继续前进乌克兰西部的相对安全。“他担心这座城市会在第一天就被俄罗斯人带走，”局说。当他离开首都时，“他甚至没有衣服”。对后勤挑战感到沮丧，记者返回巴黎重组。最近几周的事件标志着他在2018年开始开发的导演“ Trenches”的血腥尾声。在拍摄电影时，导演花了四个月的时间在唐巴斯战争的前线中，乌克兰士兵嵌入了乌克兰士兵，他们在Bo的不断威胁下生活分离主义团体的Mbardment在一系列不稳定的停火中，试图（并且失败）保持和平。这部电影在威尼斯电影节上的竞赛中脱颖而出，并被电影Boutique在国际上拒绝新的相关性和紧迫性是分离主义顿涅茨克（Donetsk）和卢汉斯（Luhansk）共和国的小规模大火，现在吞没了整个乌克兰。迈丹革命（Maidan Revolution）是一系列和平，大规模的示威活动，驱逐了亲俄罗斯的专制总统维克多·亚努科维奇（Viktor Yanukovych）。 2016年，他开始报道唐巴斯的战争，这场冲突在全球兴趣消失之前短暂吸引了世界的注意力。 str理解。导演告诉《综艺》：“军事局势很容易理解，但有时并不能显示该国的经历。唐巴斯战争的心理损失是在前线上服役的年轻乌克兰人所付出的。随着士兵们努力维持数十年前的战es，为另一代战争而战，这是一场鲜明的图像 - 在第一次世界大战期间，西方阵线拍摄的照片令人震惊，这是一个严峻的提醒，这使人们想起了历史如何继续重演，即使世界是世界，观看。从当前的战争开始，无线电通信局与他的电影的主人公保持联系。一名年轻士兵正在等待命令向一线报告。另一个人与家人陷入困境。三分之一因俄罗斯部队包围乌克兰东部的城市时，出于无关的健康原因而住院的三分之一。他将在战斗中死亡。在覆盖了阿拉伯之春及其经常血统的后果之后，他将俄罗斯军方的无情轰炸是他作为战争记者所见证的“最残酷”的冲突。与叙利亚，伊拉克和其他地方的战斗一样，乌克兰战争已经自第二次世界大战以来，已经流离失所了数百万，这已成为欧洲袭击欧洲最快的难民危机。“他们都是自己国家的难民。他们都需要帮助。但是我没有什么能做的。”局说。他说：“我感到非常无助。”暂时，他能贡献的一件事就是他最了解的。“我唯一能做的就是尝试继续拍摄并使人们了解这个国家正在发生的事情。”
Before the Russian army launched an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, French war correspondent Loup Bureau was embedded in Donbass, the restive borderland in Eastern Ukraine, which since 2014 has been the site of an ongoing conflict between Russian-backed separatist groups and Ukrainian government forces.
Reports were circulating of an impending Russian attack. Bureau, who had already spent time in the region while shooting his feature-length documentary “Trenches” – screening next week at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – expected it to be a localized skirmish. But in the early hours of a full-scale assault that engulfed large parts of the country, the scope of the Russian invasion became clear.
Bureau and other foreign correspondents were on the outskirts of the strategic eastern city of Donetsk. They decided to travel to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, some 450 miles away. The journey took two days. “It was very, very difficult. In a matter of hours, there was no fuel in petrol stations. There was no money in the ATMs,” the reporter told Variety. “It was total chaos in every city.”
Bureau spent four days in Kyiv, a city that has come to feel like a second home during nearly six years of reporting from Ukraine. Most of his friends had already left. Others, like his friend and fixer – a Kyiv native who traveled with him to Donbass – decided to continue onward to the relative safety of Western Ukraine.
“He was afraid that the city would be taken by the Russians in the very first days,” said Bureau. “He didn’t even have any clothes” when he left the capital. Frustrated by the logistical challenges, the reporter returned to Paris to regroup.
The events of recent weeks have marked a bloody coda to Bureau's directorial debut, “Trenches,” which he began developing in 2018. While shooting the film, the director spent four months embedded with Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline of the war in Donbass, where they lived under the constant threat of bombardment from separatist groups under a series of precarious ceasefires that attempted – and failed – to keep the peace.
The film, which premiered last year in the Out of Competition strand at the Venice Film Festival and is being repped internationally by Films Boutique, has found new relevance and urgency as the small-scale conflagration in the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics has now engulfed the whole of Ukraine.
A former Cairo-based correspondent for media including French broadcaster TV5Monde, Bureau’s interest in Ukraine grew out of the 2013-14 Maidan Revolution, a series of peaceful, large-scale demonstrations that ousted the pro-Russian, authoritarian President Viktor Yanukovych. In 2016, he started covering the war in Donbass, a conflict that briefly captured the world’s attention before global interest faded.
Bureau decided to turn to documentary filmmaking instead, finding the form to be better equipped to explore the gray areas of a war many outsiders struggled to comprehend. “The military situation is easy to understand, but sometimes it doesn’t show what the country is going through,” the director told Variety.
Shot in arresting, black-and-white photography, “Trenches” is a powerful depiction of the physical and psychological toll the Donbass War has taken on the young Ukrainians serving on the frontline. As the soldiers struggle to maintain trenches dug decades ago for another generation’s wars, the stark imagery – eerily reminiscent of photos taken on the Western Front during World War I – is a grim reminder of how history continues to repeat itself, even as the world is watching.
Since the current war began, Bureau has stayed in contact with his film’s protagonists. One of the young soldiers is waiting for orders to report to the frontline. Another is hunkered down with her family. A third, who was hospitalized for unrelated health reasons when Russian forces surrounded his city in Eastern Ukraine, told the director he would die fighting.
Bureau expects to return to Ukraine in the next two weeks, though he admitted he was frightened by the scale and ferocity of the current onslaught. Having covered the Arab Spring and its often-bloody aftermath, he described the relentless bombardment by the Russian military as the “most brutal” conflict he’s witnessed as a war reporter.
As with the fighting in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, the Ukraine war has already displaced millions, in what has become the fastest-growing refugee crisis to hit Europe since World War II. “They are all refugees in their own country. They all need help. But there isn’t much that I can do," said Bureau. "I feel very helpless.”
For the time being, he said, the one thing he can contribute is what he knows best. “The only thing I can do is try to continue to film and to make people understand what’s happening in this country.”
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