Oleksandr Borodin
Ukrainian serviceman, senior public relations officer (press officer) of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, and since 2025, senior officer of the communications department of the 3rd Army Corps

Oleksandr Vadymovych Borodin, call sign Zmist (born October 29, 1991) is a Ukrainian serviceman, senior public relations officer (press officer) of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, and since 2025, senior officer of the communications department of the 3rd Army Corps. Before the full-scale invasion, he was a documentary filmmaker, producer of short films about the Joint Forces Operation, and communications specialist.
Biography
Born on October 29, 1991, in Kharkiv. From 2008 to 2014, he studied at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, earning a master's degree in “Cinema and Television Arts”.
Participant in the Revolution of Dignity (Kharkiv Euromaidan).
Since 2014, co-founder of the independent creative association “ZMIST”. As a producer in the “ZMIST” team, together with Ukrayinska Pravda and Pavel Sheremet, he created the multi-episode program Diary of a Ukrainian Sergeant. He is also the producer of the multi-episode travel project about traveling in Ukraine Po Azimutu.
From 2015 to 2019, he was a producer and cinematographer at “ZMIST”, during which he shot more than 15 short documentary films about events in Donbas (including Minometnyky, ATO. Rik Zmin, Khvyli, Yelena, etc.).
In 2019, Borodin, together with Oksana Bondarenko, Kyrylo Zhorov, and Oleksandr Zakharchenko, founded the production company “VIEW LAB”, and from 2021, executive producer at the creative agency Dealers (Kyiv).
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