The Russian historical perspective on Ukraine, narrated by director Nikita Mihalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov is a famous Russian film director. He directed the very good movie “Burnt by the Sun", about the Stalinist purges, which I believe won the foreign film Oscar in 1995. He also directed “Oci Ciorne” (Dark Eyes), a story based on Tchekhov's “Lady with a dog” (1987), with Marcello Mastroianni in a main role, also very good. I think his last film that was shown internationally was “12" (2007), about the Chechen War.

Here he weighs in on the current conflict, in a documentary produced for Russian television.