Dozens of people joined in the clean-up of the Dovzhenko Film Studio site in Kyiv following the Russian shelling
This was reported by a hromadske correspondent.
On 19 June, a clean-up operation took place at the Dovzhenko Film Studio following Russian shelling. Studio staff, volunteers and local residents took part in the clean-up.
The shelling caused damage to buildings on the studio grounds. In particular, windows were smashed, furniture was damaged and offices were affected. In some rooms, shards of glass had fallen onto workstations and documents.
Participants collected the shards of glass and cleared the site of the damage caused by the strike. Many people found out about the initiative through social media or friends and decided to lend a hand.
Russian strike on the Dovzhenko Film Studio: what is known
During the Russian attack on Kyiv on 15 June, the occupiers struck the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio. The attack caused a fire in the studio’s costume workshop, and the strike destroyed Ukraine’s largest and oldest costume collection.
The damaged studio housed around 100,000 costumes and three million items of various clothing. Other buildings and structures at the film studio were also damaged.
The film studio’s Director General, Andrii Donchik, said that they had managed to save the costumes of Pronya Prokopivna and Svyryd Petrovych Golokhvastov from the film *Chasing Two Hares*, as well as Ivan Mykolaychuk’s costume from the film *Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors*.
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