Produced by the Public Interest Journalism Lab in collaboration with hromadske, the film portrays Kyiv in 2025 and early 2026 through the stories of rescuers and psychologists from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service — those who are first to arrive at the sites of missile and drone attacks. As in other wars, including in Syria, Russia uses the tactic of double-tap strikes, deliberately targeting those providing emergency assistance. Despite the threat of follow-up strikes, State Emergency Service rescuers continue their work: every day, they extinguish fires, clear rubble, and rescue Kyiv residents, risking their own lives.

In 2022, the Sumy region was under Russian occupation for about a month. During this period, Russian forces took 140 civilians captive. Twenty-six have still not returned home. Among them are Andrii Okhrimenko and Oleksii Melnyk, who were taken from their homes by Russian forces and are being held in Russian penal colonies without any charges. When Oleksii was abducted, his daughter Zlata was four years old. Andrii’s son Sasha was two. Today, they are eight and six. The film tells the stories of two families who are now in their fifth year of waiting for their loved ones to return from Russian captivity.

“The Last Prometheus of Donbas” is a Ukrainian feature-length documentary directed by Anton Shtuka about the workers of DTEK’s Kurakhove Thermal Power Plant, who kept the plant operating under constant shelling, just 10 km from the front line.
As Russia seeks to leave Ukraine without electricity and heat, the film tells the stories of people who, risking their own lives, continue working to keep light and warmth in our homes. The viewer is taken inside a hazardous facility near the front line — a place where attacks occur daily, air raid alerts are constant, and even a few steps outside a shelter can prove fatal.
This is a story about the struggle between light and darkness, about an industrial giant of Donetsk region, and about Ukrainian heroes — the Prometheuses of Donbas, who carry hope even in the most difficult times.

At the start of the full-scale invasion, the city of Chernihiv was under siege by Russian forces for 37 days. Due to the encirclement and constant shelling by Russian troops, the city was left without access to water, food, or medicine. Under these conditions, women continued to give birth at the Chernihiv Maternity Hospital. The film’s protagonists share their experiences of giving birth in a bomb shelter, sharing a single cake with raisins for two weeks, and rationing medications when it was unclear whether more would be available in the near future.

How to document human experiences of war in a way that would allow testimonies to become not only journalistic materials, but also a part of long-term memory and an evidential base?

Marina Kronhlevska, the film’s director, and Tetyana Symon, the film’s producer and the head of the interviewing department of the War Archive, will share their experience working with eyewitnesses to the events and discuss various approaches to recording and preserving their stories, as well as their subsequent use in journalism and documentaries.

The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine presents the documentary film “We Go Because They Are Waiting for Us”, telling the story of media workers who remain committed to their readers despite the challenges of war.
The film follows a married couple of journalists — Oleksii Pasiuha, editor-in-chief of the Vorskla newspaper in Velyka Pysarivka, and his wife Nataliia. Every week, despite the threat of shelling and enemy drone attacks, they travel together along one of the most dangerous newspaper delivery routes in Ukraine’s border region of Sumy. While one drives, the other keeps a close ear on the sky.
In villages without mobile connection, electricity, or postal delivery services, the printed newspaper remains the only way for people to learn the truth and stay connected to the outside world.

"Ours" is a documentary film about people who live alongside the war but refuse to let it define their lives. Their home is the Kharkiv region. But what does home mean when there’s a war all around you?

There’re different answers for each of the protagonists. City, land, family, faith or people around. It’s a place they want to return to and one they cannot leave.

"Ours" is a film about people who, despite the danger, continue to work, help others, love, raise their children, and build their future. It’s a story about the people and essence of what we’re protecting, about what makes us stay here. The movie challenges the stereotype of Kharkiv region being a place that has lost hope and lost its sense of self.

The documentary film «Ours» was created by Nakypilo Media with the support of IMS.

Informing the public is one of the most effective defences against Kremlin propaganda. In the latest Reporters without Borders documentary about Ukraine published in February 2026, we give a platform to Ukrainian journalists whose voices need to be heard internationally.

Drone attacks, artillery fire, abductions… In 2025, Ukrainian and international journalists covering Russia’s war in Ukraine continued to be targeted by the Russian army in the course of their work.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country began in February 2022, more than 180 reporters have fallen victim to Russian abuses according to RSF data. Ukrainian journalists must be listened to at the international level, and those responsible for these crimes must be brought to justice.

Informing the public is one of the most effective defences against Kremlin propaganda. In the latest Reporters without Borders documentary about Ukraine published in February 2026, we give a platform to Ukrainian journalists whose voices need to be heard internationally.

Drone attacks, artillery fire, abductions… In 2025, Ukrainian and international journalists covering Russia’s war in Ukraine continued to be targeted by the Russian army in the course of their work.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country began in February 2022, more than 180 reporters have fallen victim to Russian abuses according to RSF data. Ukrainian journalists must be listened to at the international level, and those responsible for these crimes must be brought to justice.