Valentyn Vasyanovych, a Ukrainian director, turns to camera to document the war between Ukraine and Russia

 Since Russia launched its invasion of his country, Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych has turned to what he knows best to join the war effort - his camera. Together with his producer Vladimir Yatsenko, the 50-year-old director whose films have looked at the conflict and its aftermath, says he is documenting what is happening on the ground in Kyiv. Their footage includes people, young and old, being evacuated from Irpin, crossing a destroyed bridge in the town hit by shelling.

Like others, Vasyanovych said he had a gun and had undertaken some training before Russia launched what it calls a "special operation" in Ukraine last month.

His latest movie "Reflection", set against the backdrop of the 2014 war between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, was in competition at Venice last September.