Welcome back to the second part of sunny days and Kramatorsk, a special episode of Ukraine, the

latest.

I'm David Knowles. In June I travelled across Europe from London, England to

Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine with a group of British volunteers delivering aid and vehicles

to the Ukrainian armed forces.

In the last episode, we drove from London through France, Belgium, Germany and Poland

to the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

After a thankfully peaceful night in Lviv, we were on the road bright and early, and, after many long hours driving, arrived in Kiev.

We had left Lviv in a rainstorm that it must be said, dampened

our spirits, but after putting hundreds of miles behind us driving east, summer

returned. It grew warmer and the skies were blue.

On social media we could see that Kyiv was under attack from Russian missiles and drones.

Just as African leaders paid a visit to the city.

We drove on.

After many hours our cars crested a hill, and the city lay beneath.

A little more than a year ago, I had approached Kiev and darkness driving past the ghosts of bombed apartment buildings. Now in high summer the city glittered below us.

First things first. We drove the cars to a location in the city to drop off some of the supplies

and work out exactly who was going

aware. Amid the scrum of British and Ukrainian volunteers taking materials

from the vehicles into an apartment in a leafy street of

Central Kiev. I caught up with one of the Ukrainians helping, the brother of

one of our translators.

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