Ukraine War Diaries: EP25 - Sitting room soldiers, solidarity & a second Bucha (Sept 19-23)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Thousands of miles from home Oksana finds an unexpected show of solidarity.
And in Kyiv, Ilyas reflects on the recent grim discovery of mass graveyards in liberated lands close to Kharkiv in the east of the country.
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 September 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv and working, in part, for the Ukrainian government on various IT 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.
EP25 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note.
From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.
Producer: Rob Mulhern
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Digital Promotion: David Chipakupaku
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Pain in my hip. |
| 0:02.0 | I keep feeling dizzy. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm getting migraines more often. |
| 0:09.6 | There's another way to contact your GP practice |
| 0:12.4 | by simply sending your symptoms and requests |
| 0:15.2 | through their website or the NHS app. |
| 0:18.2 | We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. |
| 0:21.7 | Tap it, type it, and we'll take care of it. |
| 0:24.3 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, just tight pain in the neck. |
| 0:29.9 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:34.5 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:36.1 | She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:41.3 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with |
| 0:47.3 | new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.3 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. |
| 0:52.3 | Can't get a word in. |
| 0:55.1 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:56.7 | Train others. |
| 0:57.8 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 1:04.9 | Hello, this is Siva from Kiev, and this is for 22nd of September. |
| 1:18.9 | Last weekend of last week, I finally came home. It was quite a long trip. I brought a SUV from Ireland. It took several days because firstly I used ferry to France and then it took several |
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