Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev calls on Putin to end Ukraine ‘carnage’

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev appealed to President Vladimir Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine Saturday after his new movie set during the war came runner-up at the Cannes Film Festival.

“Millions of people on both sides of the line of contact now dream of only one thing: that the massacres finally stop,” he said in his acceptance speech.

“And the only person who can put an end to this meat grinder is you… put a stop to this carnage, the whole world is waiting for this.”