A TV host, a YouTube blogger and a showman. Denys Khrystov had a very different life before Russia’s invasion. Now a volunteer evacuating civilians from the most dangerous places on the frontline, Denys says he doesn’t know how many he rescued, but he remembers everyone he did not evacuate.
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00:00A TV host, a YouTube blogger and a showman, Denis Khristov, had a very different life
00:06before Russia's full-scale invasion.
00:08For almost three years now, he has been a volunteer evacuating civilians from the most
00:13dangerous places on the front line.
00:15He showed Euronews some working material from Avdiivka, which will turn into a movie, One
00:20Percent of War.
00:30He says he doesn't remember how many people he rescued, but he does remember each and
00:35every person he did not evacuate.
00:56Khristov doesn't have a crew.
00:58Everything is filmed on his phone and a GoPro camera on his tactical helmet.
01:03One Percent of War will show stories of the evacuation of a severely wounded Ukrainian
01:07soldier, a villager who was the only one left in the street, the body of a deceased Ukrainian
01:13civilian and her caretaker, and even animals.
01:36Khristov says that people usually notice the war when it is too late, and at first, they
01:55simply don't believe it's real.