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STYLE: hand-painted 2D Slavic folk-art animation — Bilibin / lubok / Orthodox-icon sensibility. Bold decorative ink outlines, flat matte gouache color fills (poster-flat), ornamental folk pattern work, strong readable silhouettes, storybook-fable atmosphere. Flat painted, posterized light — NO photoreal 3D shading, NO cel-anime gloss. Limited palette with a cool accent. Cinematic VERTICAL 9:16 storyboard frame, composed for a tall vertical frame (subject centered, vertical action, room above and below). High emotional readability. CHARACTER LOCK (STRICT): Every character in this shot MUST take their appearance DIRECTLY from the attached character design sheet(s) — the exact same face, age, build, skin, hair, stubble, wounds, helmet, RF flag patch, gear, weapon and folk ornament. The sheets are the single source of truth. Do NOT invent, age-shift, youthen or reinterpret any character. Misha is an ADULT man in his early twenties exactly as on his sheet — never a child, teen or boy. Match each figure to their sheet 1:1. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire vertical 9:16 frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no lettering inside the image. If unavoidable, Russian (Cyrillic) only — never Latin. NEGATIVE: no horizontal letterboxing, no 16:9 crop, no child, no teenager, no boy, no babyish face, no oversized clothing on Misha, no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no soft volumetric lighting, no 3D depth, no photoreal skin, no glossy digital painting, no engraving hatching, no sepia monochrome, no realistic render, no Latin text. Grey dawn at a frontline checkpoint (KPP): Semyon and Misha (both straight from their sheets) in modern Russian combat gear and helmets, RF tricolor patches, standing in the foreground. Comrades as decorative silhouettes gather for work details and watch duty. A tall smoke-heavy sky fills the upper frame with reconnaissance drones as ornamental shapes; a soldier ducks toward dugout cover below. Deceptive calm. Muted palette — slate blue, ash grey, faded olive-green, a single faded gold dawn accent. Vertical composition, flat posterized light. Mood: an ordinary morning, nothing foretells the tragedy.