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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Mansur Mirovalev

Box office bombs: Russia spends millions on war propaganda films that flop

Crimea, a melodrama commissioned by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, was released in 2017 on YouTube [Screengrab/YouTube]

Kyiv, Ukraine – A Belgian violinist arrives in Ukraine to play for an art-loving oligarch – and witnesses the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

He sees how Ukrainian servicemen “kill” civilians and “shell” a railway station to blame the deaths on the Russians whose purpose is Ukraine’s “liberation” from a Western-backed “neo-Nazi junta”.

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