The U.S. premiere of “Can You Hear Me? The Invisible Battles of Ukrainian Military Medics” takes place Friday at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., with Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States expected to attend. The Kyiv Independent’s documentary follows combat medics from the front lines of Ukraine to the quiet forests of Sweden, where they receive a rare mental health retreat after years of nonstop trauma.

The film’s creators, journalists Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko, document the medics’ struggle to process grief and guilt before returning once again to war. Editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, Olga Rudenko, told Scripps News that the film reveals a side of the conflict rarely seen in daily coverage. She said the response in Europe has been overwhelmingly positive becau

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