The Scottish man who went to fight for Ukraine
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
He joined thousands of volunteers from around the world who signed up to fight for Ukraine.
Now back in Scotland, Sky’s national correspondent, Tom Parmenter, goes to see him, and his parents Sheena and Derek, to find out why he went, and the impact his decision had on him, and his family.
Producer: Emily Upton
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Sound: John Anthony
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Add water to your will. |
| 0:02.0 | And know that from that single drop, |
| 0:05.0 | life will grow. |
| 0:08.0 | Communities will flourish. |
| 0:10.0 | A better world will be left. |
| 0:13.0 | By leaving a gift in your will to Water Aid, |
| 0:16.0 | you'll help bring essential clean water to people who need it, |
| 0:20.0 | to change their own lives for generations |
| 0:22.4 | to come. Add water aid to your will. Search WaterAid legacy to find out how. You know, when Helen |
| 0:31.0 | used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't. After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found |
| 0:42.3 | this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.8 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in. |
| 0:55.0 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:56.6 | Train others. |
| 0:57.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 1:01.8 | Hello, I'm Tom Parmenter, Sky News's national correspondent. |
| 1:06.5 | On this episode of The Daily, someone I met whilst recording a TV report to coincide with |
| 1:12.3 | the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:15.7 | With most of my TV reports, they're on air for about three minutes or so, but we wanted |
| 1:20.3 | to take a bit more time to tell you, Douglas' story. |
| 1:24.6 | He's 26. |
| 1:26.3 | He fixes tractors for work. He lives in the countryside in southwest Scotland. |
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