Mstyslav Chernov, who won an Oscar for 20 Days in Mariupol, said while wearing a black memorial suit:
“I am grateful. But I will probably be the first director on this stage to say: I wish I had never made this film.
I wish I could exchange this for Russia never having attacked Ukraine, never having occupied our cities. I would give up all this recognition for Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I would give it up for them to release all the hostages — the soldiers who defended our land, and the civilians who are in their prisons”:
Meanwhile, a Russian “no to war” teacher, after receiving an Oscar for a film about how Russia prepares schoolchildren from an early age to go and kill Ukrainians:
Do they not feel sadness about what their work is based on? Doesn’t it make them wish that, instead of receiving all these awards — including an Oscar — it would have been better if what they filmed had never happened at all?
This is the perfect illustration of what is wrong with this whole situation and broadly with the russian so-called "opposition". Russians turn everything for their self-serving puposes. Even the crimes they claim are bad - they are still happy to benefit from.
And the rest of the world is oh so happy to support them in this.





















