‘Frontline’ presents ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’

Tuesday, January 20 at 9 p.m.

Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian platoon traversing through one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the small, Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. But as this documentary reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that, for them, this war may never end.

Weaving together intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam footage and powerful moments of reflection, Chernov captures the war in his own country from a personal and devastating vantage point.

“2000 Meters to Andriivka” documents a battle emblematic of the broader Russian-Ukraine war, the largest military operation in Europe since World War II, and presents a view of modern warfare reminiscent of battles fought nearly a century ago.

This is the second film from the Oscar®-winning team behind the documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov, producer and editor Michelle Mizner and producer Raney Aronson-Rath.