Ukraine War Diaries: EP18 - Law of the gun, the longest road & a new code (Aug1-5)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Returning by road from Belgium, Oksana dodges a series of air strikes.
Meanwhile, Ilyas reveals how he and fellow Ukrainians are combating the Russian disinformation war.
BACKGROUND
Seva, 40, is a company CEO and husband to Oksana. Before the war, he travelled across Europe for business. Now, he makes regular supply drops of medical aid and rations to Ukrainian troops on the front line in Eastern Ukraine. He’s originally from a small village near Dnipro.
Oksana, 35, works in overseas education. She lives with her husband, Seva, in an apartment complex in central Kyiv and has remained in the Ukrainian capital since the war started.
Many of Oksana’s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She’s determined to stay.
Ilyas is an IT specialist and married father who fled from Kyiv to Lviv shortly after the war started. His wife Natalia, and two young sons are taking refuge in Poland.
As of August 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv and working, in part, for the Ukrainian government on various projects.
Ukraine War Diaries uses first-person audio, recorded on the ground in Ukraine, to give an intimate day-to-day perspective of life in a war zone.
Week 18 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note.
From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.
Producer Rob Mulhern
Editing Paul Stanworth
Digital Promotion David Chipakupaku
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| 0:57.0 | Visit racefor-life.org. Prices vary by event distance and participant age. Hi everyone, this is Céva from Kyiv and this is for August 2nd. Actually I was quite surprised that it's already August and two-thirds of the summer is already gone because I think no one in Ukraine has even noticed that it's summer. |
| 1:25.6 | I think since 24th of July we don't have summer, winter, spring, |
| 1:31.3 | nothing. We just only can discuss whether by means of either it helps to our army or it doesn't help to our army. |
| 1:42.3 | That's the meaning of weather now for whole nation, unfortunately. |
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