For all the coverage of war in Ukraine, it is rare to see it from the point of view of soldiers on the front. But by asking Ukrainians to wear cameras on their helmets as they face down relentless Russian attacks, Jamie Roberts’s BBC Two documentary has captured the bloody reality of a conflict increasingly forgotten in the west.
The director says the intimate and harrowing film, Ukraine, Enemy in the Woods, was conceived as a response to war fatigue. But, if anything, the grim and often unheroic struggle in the frozen forest north-west of Kupyansk emphasises the sheer level of human loss that Ukraine is suffering in defence of its homeland.
