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STYLE: hand-painted 2D Slavic folk-art animation — Bilibin / lubok / Orthodox-icon sensibility. Bold decorative ink outlines, flat matte gouache 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, moustache, age, build, skin, hair, helmet/cap, RF flag patch, gear, weapon and folk ornament. The sheet is the single source of truth. Do NOT invent, age-shift or reinterpret. Match the figure to his 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 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. Prokhor the warrant officer (straight from his sheet) beside a UAZ-type military vehicle rendered as a decorative folk shape, vehicle keys in hand, standing tall in the vertical frame as he throws a troubled backward glance over his shoulder at the checkpoint — a wordless premonition on his weathered moustached face, RF tricolor patch on his sleeve. Comrade silhouettes carry on below; a heavy tall dawn sky with ornamental drones above. Muted palette — ash grey, slate blue, faded olive, a faint warm accent. Off-center vertical composition, negative space heavy with unease. Mood: foreboding — a man leaving as if he senses doom.