Donbass: true lies from the Ukrainian frontline

Sergey Loznitsa’s absurdist satire of the Russian propaganda machine falls foul of a similar selective storytelling, writes former Moscow correspondent Shaun Walker

Donbass, unlike much of Ukrainian director Sergey Loznitsa’s previous work, is a feature film, not a documentary. But most scenes in the movie, which deals with the outbreak of war in the eponymous eastern region of Ukraine in 2014, ring sickeningly true.