Since July 2014, Mark Bartalmai has been living in Donetsk – precisely in the region in the Donbass where a bloody civil war is raging. For Western media consumers, one thing is certain: Putin is responsible for the conflict. But Mark Bartalmai wanted to know more and went directly to the war.

”Ukrainian agony” is a silent film about the immense volume and violence of war. The propaganda has reached a new level of ”quality”. Disinformation, concealment, half-truths up to outright lies are the ”weapons” of certain Western media in this war.