Boris Johnson: Into Ukraine's Kill Zone

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Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson travels to Ukraine's frontline, into the kill zone, to find out what is happening four years into Putin's full-scale invasion. Under the constant threat of Russian drones, Boris seeks out soldiers living with the threat of death every day, talking to wounded soldiers and hearing about the realities of conscription

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David Butcher

This year has seen relatively little first-hand reporting from the war in Ukraine. Boris Johnson does his bit to remedy that with a feature-length documentary in which he returns to his journalistic roots to report from the conflict’s “kill zone”, near the south-eastern front line. It takes a moment to adjust to our former PM as a war correspondent, muttering “Really?” or “How amazing!” in the face of stark testimony from people he meets. These include anti-aircraft gunners, drone operators, and DIY engineers assembling bombs and mines. The latter show him the vape-sized “toe-popper” mines, powerful enough to blow a Russian soldier’s foot off, but not kill them.

Most of all, Boris is struck by Ukrainians’ tough fighting spirit: “I see how you defeated Napoleon and everybody else.”

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rolenameExecutive producerAlan ClementsExecutive producerIan LamarraDirectorBiança Barker

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