He said his stint on the ISS was full of professional discoveries and added that he would never have been able to shoot on Earth what he had shot in space. The cosmos is also ready to welcome various experimentalists,” said Shipenko. The 38-year-old US-educated film director said cinema was ready to conquer space. “We’ve shot everything we planned,” Shipenko said from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow. They shot more than 30 hours worth of footage which will later be edited down to about 30 minutes. He and the rest of his brigade have inhabited the ruins of Bakhmut for nearly two months, he said.Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky (C), actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko following their return from the International Space Station Photograph: Andrey Shelepin/GAGARIN COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTE/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ beaming Shipenko told reporters that the task was a “huge challenge” and they had to constantly adapt to film scenes. The enemy is throwing a great deal of its forces at us, constant waves of assaults," he added. He said Russian forces were conducting constant assaults in the city - and that Ukrainian troops were beating them back. "In the last few days, the intensity of shelling and rocket artillery has increased," Ms Hryshchenko said. The eastern city, often referred to as the "meat grinder", has been the site of fierce fighting for months now, with both sides suffering severe losses.įor weeks now, the boss of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has complained that the Russian army has been depriving his forces of enough ammunition to capture the area.īut for Ukrainian Colonel Roman Hryshchenko, the commander of Ukraine's 127th Territorial Defence Brigade, the forces haven't "had anything even close to a munitions' deficit". Russian mercenary fighters have stepped up their shelling and artillery attacks in recent days, and are not facing a shortage of munitions, a Ukrainian brigade commander in Bakhmut has said.
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