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WHEN maverick Ukrainian entrepreneur Vadym Minziuk’s life was destroyed in the 2014 Russian invasion he had no choice but to flee.
He moved his family to the only place he could afford to start again – a one-horse town in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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Despite the fact that the town of Dytyatky was ravaged by the fallout from the 1986 nuclear disaster and still has high levels of radiation, Vadym had big dreams of transforming its fortunes and turning it into one of Ukraine’s top tourist destinations.
Unfortunately for Vadym his big-city ways and newfangled ideas set him at odds with the townsfolk, led by the formidable Mayor Svitlana.
But with a full-scale Russian invasion threatening the nation, a new film tells how Vadym and his neighbours had to unite to survive.
Back in Donbas, in the East of the country, Vadym and his family had a large home, two apartments, a second house and a factory but it was all destroyed in one rocket strike. They had to start from scratch with nothing.
“Leaving home is…
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