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Ukrainian Oscar-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol will be available on Netflix from April 21.

"Days you'd rather not relive. 20 Days in Mariupol - April 21 on Netflix", the streaming service briefly announced.

The film, created in collaboration with the American documentary studio FRONTLINE and the American news agency Associated Press, is a chronicle of the first 20 days of the full-scale invasion, told through the stories of people who witnessed and were victims of russian atrocities. 20 Days in Mariupol shows how the russians turned the city into ruins: bombing of a maternity hospital, shelling of residential buildings, mass graves, hiding civilians in basements, and the rescue of the film's authors from besieged Mariupol. As the director explained in an interview, he does not express his own judgments or draw conclusions, but helps viewers better understand what is happening on the screen.

On March 21, the documentary 20 Days in Mariupol was released on all Ukrainian services. During its first weekend of online screenings, the film became a record-breaker among documentaries on all Ukrainian platforms, with a record number of viewers watching it.

This year, the film won the first Oscar for Ukraine in the history of our country. The film won in the Best Feature Documentary nomination.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine showed a video interview with Volodymyr Nikulin, deputy chief of the Donetsk police department, who became one of the main characters in Mstislav Chernov's Oscar-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol and helped the film crew leave the besieged city.

The war correspondent and director of the film 20 Days in Mariupol, Mstislav Chernov, shared that it was painful to create the film throughout the entire journey.