
South-East Ukraine: Crisis Diary
Southeastern Ukraine in the weeks after Crimea's referendum, told through footage shot by residents rather than professional crews. RT compiled clips and interviews sent in from people living in cities across the region, capturing rallies, checkpoints, and daily disruptions as tensions spread beyond Crimea. Much of the material has not aired on television, and the film keeps its own presence minimal, cutting between locations to show how unevenly the crisis was landing from one city to the next. Voices on camera describe wanting a vote of their own, echoing the Crimean referendum that had just taken place, while others simply document what a demonstration or a blockade looked like from where they stood. The result is closer to raw dispatch than finished reportage: unpolished video, handheld interviews, and a patchwork sense of a country pulling apart region by region.