Life under Russian occupation - a secret recording
Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, spent three months secretly recording his cityβs resistance to the Russian occupation.
On the 1st March 2022 Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, watched Russian tanks roll down his street. As his world, like many Ukrainiansβ, turned upside down, he secretly started filming everything around him, sensing history in the making, and sharing the footage with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.
Over the next three months Dmytro recorded his cityβs resistance. There are acts of defiance followed by a violent crackdown. The city changes. Food and medicine become scarce. Russian military vehicles marked with the βZβ speed up and down Kherson streets. Shelling is heard round the clock. Many people flee. Friends and prominent local people start to disappear - others are put through mock executions.
As the Russians make their intentions clearer, Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shelter their 5-year old daughter Ksusha from what is happening. Eventually they decide to leave the city.
For 5 Minutes On, this is the story of Dymtro Bahnenko and his family, and their life in Russian occupied Ukraine.
Dymytro Bahnenkoβs words were read by Dzhafer Umerov. Image Credit: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News