Filmmaker Anton Yaremchuk has already packed a suitcase for the trip to Kiev. In the event of a Russian advance on the capital of Ukraine, the Berliner wants to get there. Yaremchuk’s father, brother and sister live in Kiev. “I grew up in Italy and also have an Italian passport. It gives me hope that if the Russians attack Kiev, the Italians would evacuate me and my family,” he says. Yaremchuk has lived in Berlin since 2017. He himself considers the probability of rescue from outside to be low. “Even if the chance is only 15 percent, I’ll do it,” he says. But when would be the right time for a trip to Kiev? Finding an answer has become even more difficult for him since Putin’s latest ruse, he says.
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