“Major” is both his call sign and his rank. In February 2024, he took command of a newly formed unmanned ground systems company in the “Burevii” Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. His robots deliver ammunition, supplies, and fuel to positions that neither armoured vehicles nor pickup trucks can reach. Major’s unit tests new platforms, works with developers, and improves systems designed to save lives. But today, the mission is different — the evacuation of a wounded soldier.
CREW:
Director: Volodymyr Sydko
Producer: Star Price, Kelly Rausch
Cinematographer: Oles Navrotskyi, Vitalii Bredik
Editor: Oleksandr Vitraniuk, Oles Navrotskyi
Sound: Dmytro Stepanov
Production
Star Price Productions
Awards
Mission 200: Grand Prix of the 2025 Artdocfest in Riga; closing film and special mention of the Andrii Matrosov Award at the Docudays UA;
The Price of Conflict: nomination for the ABC News VideoSource Award; DRUK International Film Festival — winner; Crown Wood International Film Festival — winner
Director
Volodymyr Sydko
Volodymyr Sydko is a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. Since his student years, he has worked in television, creating documentary programmes. He has ten years of experience in journalism. In 2021, as a director, he created his first major documentary film, The Price of Conflict, about how Russia deceived the coal miners of Donbas. The film received several international awards and was nominated for the ABCNews VideoSource Award.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Volodymyr has been creating documentary projects about Ukraine’s struggle against the Russians. His films have been screened in the United States and Europe, telling the world about the realities of the war and the crimes of the occupiers.
Selected Filmography
War Mechanics (2026), Da Vinci (2024), Mission 200 (2023), Women Guardians at War (2022), The Price of Conflict (2021)
