Oscars international broadcast cuts '20 Days in Mariupol' win, sparking criticism in Ukraine

Ukraine is not the world priority, everybody has their own priorities,like mines Liberty Equality and Justice for All, something the whole world benefit from

Move on ! The Ukraine issue has lost its sheen

Wars does not win with documentaries..

And this is already a lost war for kyiv regime..

Capitulate with Russia before it's too late..

ThubanMar. 13 07:23 am JST

Why not broadcast directly from there showing the lively cafes and modern apartment complexes?

Any American traveling to Russia or Russian annexed Ukraine risks abduction by the state.

This documentary is critical to anyone who has family and children. Putin is responsible for the murder of babies and toddlers. This documentary shows the truth of Putin's evil war. Huge bombs dropped on hospital maternity wards, teenagers with their legs blown off, a heavily pregnant woman with her leg blown off (neither the mother nor the unborn baby survived). Putin is pure evil and needs to be eradicated from the face of this earth. He did exactly the same in Syria.

Why not broadcast directly from there showing the lively cafes and modern apartment complexes?

So you justify the cold blooded murder of innocent babies and children blown up by your Russian bombs in order to create your own Russian town? You have blood on your hands.

Ukraine is not the world priority, everybody has their own priorities,like mines Liberty Equality and Justice for All, something the whole world benefit from

What do you think the war on Ukraine is all about?? You use the words liberty, equality and justice yet you don't even know what they mean! Ukraine is exactly a priority for the defence of liberty, equality and justice.

Ukraine thinking it is the center of everyone’s attention is getting real old.

Maruipol is now a bustling city that is almost completely rebuilt and the port is active.

Actually, that is just facade - like what China did to make Beijing look good for the Olympics

"Inside Mariupol: Russia’s new Potemkin village"

https://ig.ft.com/mariupol/

Locals live in perilous conditions while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions

As a construction worker, Maksim knows what good repair work looks like. Standing in his apartment in a flood of human faeces, he knew this wasn’t it.

R-Stroy, the company contracted to work on Maksim’s damaged building, started in October 2022. The weather was bad in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol that autumn, with wind and heavy rain. One chilly day, a team of R-Stroy labourers arrived and removed two thirds of the apartment blocks’ windows, leaving residents exposed to the elements.

When the new windows finally arrived in November, they were the wrong size. The builders installed them upside down, or protruding from walls. Front doors were removed. Water leaked in and froze. There was no heating until late February. “Most of the furniture people had was ruined, the floors all swelled and buckled,” says Maksim.

Two weeks before the last Ukrainian fighters had surrendered, Russia announced a master plan for the city, produced by the Russian Ministry of Construction and the Moscow-based Unified Research and Design Institute.

The document was a sham.

The Russian model was based on outdated Ukrainian plans produced prior to 2016 and taking into account none of the changes that had taken place since.

The reconstruction work was loudly celebrated in Russian state media and by Russian YouTubers. They spoke proudly of a restored tram system and a fleet of new buses that had arrived from St Petersburg. Soon, swiftly-built apartment complexes were being shown off to the public.

In March 2023, Putin visited Mariupol. Widely reported in Russian and western media, the trip attempted to normalise Russian control of the region. He toured rebuilt sites, as well as the newly constructed Nevsky neighbourhood on the city’s western edge. A video published by the Kremlin showed Russia’s president meeting happy residents.

In the background, a woman can be heard shouting: “It’s not real! It’s all for show!” The shouting was quickly edited out.

In its rush to show off a new Russian Mariupol to the world, Moscow funnelled billions of roubles towards reconstruction, often in the form of contracts awarded to private construction companies. This included R-Stroy, the firm charged with renovating Maksim’s apartment block. The company was established in May 2022, just as Russia took control of the city.

The speed of construction contributed to its shoddiness. Good building work takes longer than the two or three months the Russians took to finish some of the new apartment blocks, according to Mykola Tryfonov, who had been head of Mariupol’s Capital Construction Authority. The concrete was only given a week to cure, Tryfonov says, not the three weeks usually required. He estimates that there will be structural problems within two to three years.

Across the city, residents have shared major problems with their homes on social media. Their accounts are likely to be just the “tip of the iceberg,” Shumanov says, as Russia controls the newly-occupied territories with an iron grip and most people fear speaking out. The videos portray the dereliction in which people live, but also the ways in which the so-called reconstruction has made a difficult situation worse.

Not far from the fake Crimean villages built to impress Catherine the Great, cracks were starting to show in Russia’s Potemkin facade.

Well there’s ALWAYS that European music festival to heal the boo boo.

TokyoLivingMar. 14 01:22 am JST

Wars does not win with documentaries..

And this is already a lost war for kyiv regime..

Capitulate with Russia before it's too late..

But the film did win. And surrendering to the likes of Russia would be immoral.