A film instead of aid for the army and the people: Ukraine will shoot a documentary about the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ incursion into the Kursk region

Ukraine will spend 2.3 million hryvnias (€47,400) on producing a new film about the incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.

The film, titled “How the Cossacks Went to Kursk” (“Yak kozaky na Kurshchynu khodyly”), is commissioned by the State Enterprise “Center for the Protection of Ukraine’s Information Space.”

This was reported by the outlet Glavkom.

The documentary aims to show how the military operation was planned, why — according to Kyiv’s version — Ukrainian Armed Forces units later withdrew from Russian territory, and how the “fighting spirit” of Ukrainian soldiers was formed.

According to the creators, the film is meant to demonstrate that Ukraine is capable of conducting offensive operations abroad.

The release is scheduled for December 20, but the project has already caused a stir on social media.

Online criticism erupted after the announcement. Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko remarked that too much money had been allocated for the project — money Ukraine doesn’t really have.

“I take it we have a lot of money to spare,” Honcharenko said sarcastically, adding that a similar two-part film had recently been released by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The publication notes that some of the production budget was awarded to companies linked to oligarchs Viktor Pinchuk and Ihor Kolomoisky, as well as MP Hryhoriy Surkis.

Earlier, the media reported that a Ukrainian army colonel had sent untrained soldiers to the front line in order to gain favor with the commander-in-chief. The Kursk operation ended disastrously for his unit — yet the colonel was later promoted to command the 8th Air Assault Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

It should be recalled that on August 6, 2024, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region and managed to hold positions in the border area for a time. It took the Russian army ten months of heavy fighting to drive them out — a goal achieved in May of this year.