Police officer Volodymyr Nikulin is not only the protagonist of the Oscar-winning film 20 Days in Mariupol, but also its savior. The law enforcement officer helped the film crew escape and take the footage out of the captured city. This was reported by the press service of the National Police of Ukraine, according to UNN.
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It is noted that together with the film crew, they traveled for 20 hours in a broken car through the occupied territory. Nikulin was carrying journalists along with his own family. They passed 15 enemy checkpoints.
It's scary to think what would have happened if the occupiers had found videos under the seats with evidence of the murders of Mariupol residents by the Russian occupiers,
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Volodymyr Nikulin has been serving for 30 years. In 2014, he left the temporarily occupied Donetsk and served in the besieged Mariupol. Currently, he works as the deputy head of the documentary support department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Donetsk Oblast. He was wounded during the Russian shelling of Pokrovsk when he was helping the injured. A fragment pierced his lung.
The policeman calls on the international community to remember the crimes of the Russian invaders and reminds that these 20 days in Mariupol were only the beginning. The occupation forces are still ruthlessly destroying Ukraine every day.
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The Ukrainian documentary 20 Days in Mariupol by Mstislav Chernov, filmed during the siege of Mariupol in March 2022, won the Best Feature Documentary at the Academy Awards.