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Bernard-Henri Levy with Ukrainian service members in a front-line trench position near Lyman in the Donbas region.
  • Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine has been ongoing for nearly 14 months.
  • A French filmmaker spent much of 2022 documenting battlefield scenes across the country.
  • Insider spoke with Bernard-Henri Levy to learn more about his experience on the ground. 

Russia invaded Ukraine nearly 14 months ago, and the bloody conflict it ignited shows no signs of ending any time soon. 

Bernard-Henri Levy, a French filmmaker and public intellectual, spent much of last year documenting the horrors of the Ukraine war for an upcoming film, from the early days of Russia's invasion in late February to Ukraine's liberation of massive chunks of territory during the final weeks of the year that's now ground into a war of attrition on mostly static front lines.