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The documentary, which premiered at Tribeca Festival 2024, follows a daring rescue by a heroic team of zookeepers and volunteers who risked their lives to save thousands of animals trapped in a zoo behind enemy lines during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
This has proved to be a highly effective means of interrupting logistics far behind enemy lines.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
He got separated from his platoon, and after more than a week behind enemy lines, he was reunited with his unit with the help of the French resistance.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 24 July 2025
One of Yakovenko’s managers showed me a fuzzy black-and-white video, taken in April, of a night operation behind enemy lines.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
This has proved to be a highly effective means of interrupting logistics far behind enemy lines.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
He got separated from his platoon, and after more than a week behind enemy lines, he was reunited with his unit with the help of the French resistance.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 24 July 2025
One of Yakovenko’s managers showed me a fuzzy black-and-white video, taken in April, of a night operation behind enemy lines.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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“Behind enemy lines.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behind%20enemy%20lines. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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