Ukraine’s first Oscar winner: I wish I did not have to make my film

Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, and Michelle Mizner after they won the award for best documentary feature film for 20 Days In Mariupol. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The director of 20 Days In Mariupol has said he wished that he did not have to make his Oscar-winning film.

The documentary tells the story of the 20 days that Mstyslav Chernov spent with his colleagues from the Associated Press (AP) news agency in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after Russia invaded.