The Armed Forces presented a short film about 10 years of war for children — “Pixel. Guardian of Freedom”

The Armed Forces of Ukraine showed the first short animated film in their history "Pixel. "Guardian of Freedom" is a story for the youngest Ukrainians about ten years of war, the struggle for freedom, and about those on whose shoulders the country rests.

The story begins with the events of the Revolution of Dignity and the seizure of Crimea by the Russians in 2014. Then it is told about all the crimes that Russia has committed against humanity, and also about the hero Pixel, who became a guardian of freedom and protects Ukrainians who hold the sky, the earth and the sea.

The short film was voiced by the stand-up comedian Vasyl ByDuck, Tik Tu, "Cake and Whip" were responsible for the music and sound design, the script was developed by the writer and cultural historian Oleksandr Mykhed, and it was edited by director Lisa Tarasova.

Pixel is the unofficial name of the camouflage pattern on the uniforms of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

• Russia launched a war against Ukraine in 2014, when it occupied Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. On February 24, 2022, the occupiers began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine from the northern, eastern and southern directions.
• In April 2022, the Defense Forces expelled the occupiers from the northern regions of Ukraine, and in the fall de-occupied parts of the Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv regions. On June 5, 2023, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that the Defense Forces had gone on the offensive in some directions. Later there were reports of the de-occupation of settlements in the east and south. In October 2023, the occupiers attacked Avdiivka.