Ukraine War Diaries: EP19 - Combat stress, stoicism & a special journey (Aug 8-12)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Recording while returning from the frontline, Seva shares important news about his father.
Meanwhile, Ilyas is given clearance to make a special journey to Poland.
BACKGROUND
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.
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.
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.
EP20 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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| 0:33.7 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
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| 1:02.1 | Hello, this is Aksana in Kiev, and it's now the second week of August. |
| 1:19.6 | Um, One of the deviations of my mind that I have noticed quite unexpectedly. And I think it is connected to me observing lots of destruction, both in real time in the Kiev region and also in |
| 1:31.8 | different parts of Ukraine where the kind of active devastation happens. |
| 1:39.9 | It's that when I look at a beautiful building, so I have this little, you know, kind of flash |
| 1:47.0 | when I see destroyed by a rocket or by a fire. |
| 1:54.0 | And, you know, it's just, it doesn't really require lots of imagination to see that. |
| 2:03.6 | I just, you know, see it in a second and then I have to snap myself back. |
| 2:09.6 | I come down, it's fine. |
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