Spetsialna Operatsiia

When Russian troops occupied Ukraine’s Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant on February 24, 2022, in the very first hours of their all-out invasion of Ukraine, their activities were documented by CCTV cameras. They turned the territory of the nuclear power plant into a military base in an attempt to occupy the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, located just a hundred miles away. Most of their criminal activities during the five weeks they were stuck at the radioactive site were captured by the nuclear plant’s CCTV system.
Based on that footage, recorded at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, Spetsialna Operatsiia creates an almost disembodied examination of military logic. Each shot of this film is a piece of evidence representing a war crime of nuclear terror.