Elena Volochine is a freelance reporter, videographer and director based in Paris. She works with Arte and France 24 television channels. Between 2012 and 2022, she was Moscow correspondent for French-language media and France 24's Russia bureau chief. She has been covering the war in Ukraine since it began in 2014. In 2024, she published Propagande : l'arme de guerre de Vladimir Poutine (éditions Autrement, Paris, 2024).
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launches a full-scale war to invade Ukraine. Eight years earlier, his army and security services had been working in secret to establish Russian control over an oblast in the east of the country, which proclaimed itself the “Donetsk People's Republic”. This is where the protagonists of this film – Oleg and Max, two young Russians in their thirties – have com...
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launches a full-scale war to invade Ukraine. Eight years earlier, his army and security services had been working in secret to establish Russian control over an oblast in the east of the country, which proclaimed itself the “Donetsk People's Republic”. This is where the protagonists of this film – Oleg and Max, two young Russians in their thirties – have com...