The toll on children is staggering and unacceptable, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell has said.
Vance lectured European governments about allowing the far-right greater sway in politics).
And its not just the next generation, its for whom the fathers today are fighting on the frontlines.
‘Children in the Fire’ director Evgeny Afineevsky with Roman, one of the kids injured in the war in UkraineUnbroken Generation Production
I have the strongest and the most resilient stories of these kids.
Afineevsky profiles children from all over Ukraine who suffered grim injuries.
Yana lost both her legs below the knees; her mother lost a limb.
Yana runs on specially-designed blades after losing her limbs in a Russian bombing raidUnbroken Generation Production
Yana uses prosthetics now and has taken up running with specially made blades.
He was severely burned on 40 percent of his body; his mother was killed.
He has resumed playing the accordion and harmonica, and recently began participating in ballroom dancing competitions.
Her mother dug her out from under debris and Sasha remained in a coma for 15 days.
Her left leg had to be amputated.
Despite her injury, she has returned to her gymnastics training and has won several competitions.
You see this determination on the younger generation, Afineevsky marvels.
Theyre strong, theyre resilient… Children in the Fireincludes diary entries composed by kids as their country was torn apart.
Valeriia, 17, from Nova Kakhovka, writes of imagining her journal being found under rubble.
I thought I would never survive, she notes, and that this diary would be my story.
More than half of the film is animated, based on real footage.
Its not just a live action documentary.
Its a live action mixed with animation, Afineevsky observes.
I make a run at show some elements through their imaginations, through their reality.
Men were crying, the filmmaker reports.
They were moved; they were crying.
The father of Roman [the boy who was burned] was crying with him as well.
It was interesting to see the emotions.
Remember, you want to be on the right side of history, McCaul said.
Were not a Neville Chamberlain with Hitler.
He makes it very hard to make deals.
But look whats happened to his country, its been demolished.
I think when youre trying to negotiate this, all parties have to be involved, he says.
Since its the future of Ukraine, since its everything about Ukraine, Ukraine must be there.
Afineevsky says hes working to set up festival premieres forChildren in the Fire.
He notes the theme of the film applies to a much wider territory than Ukraine alone.
Its the kids in all other places, in all other wars, in Sudan, its everywhere.
I think its important to bring this image and these stories and to show what kids are suffering.
