A gripping and chilling report
An eyewitness account by a Slovak journalist directly from the scene of the conflict and a vivid kaleidoscope of the many life stories that the author collected on both sides of the front in eastern Ukraine. The fate of the Georgian Mamuka, fighting Russian aggression with a Kalashnikov in his hand since he was 14, Jirky, Czech volunteer in the ranks of the Donetsk separatists, Lisa from Luhansk, coming to terms with her fate as a refugee and abused woman, and many others.
Forró has created not only a plastic picture of the everyday reality of war, but also a brilliant analysis of the causes of the frozen conflicts in the ring surrounding the Russian Federation, in Georgian Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Moldovan Transnistria and, most recently, in the Ukrainian Donbass.
