Ukraine War Diaries: EP31 - More Russian payloads, Putin’s plan & Patriots (Oct 31-4 November)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Meanwhile, military volunteer, Seva, sets off on a lone assignment to the frontlines in Donetsk where his thinking is challenged by an embattled tank battalion.
OUR DIARISTS
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 November 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv and working, in part, for the Ukrainian government on various IT projects.
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.
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.
EP31 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
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| 1:01.5 | When Russia invaded Ukraine, Sky News asked a group of Ukrainians to record diaries, as war |
| 1:08.4 | twisted both their country and their lives violently out of shape. |
| 1:13.4 | For more than eight months, husband and father, Ilyas. |
| 1:16.8 | There were seven bombs, seven hits that I heard. |
| 1:20.4 | Kiev resident Oksana. |
| 1:22.2 | All of the cities that my bus passed, they were all under attack. |
| 1:26.2 | And her husband, military volunteer sever... |
| 1:28.8 | We have no other choice than to fight. What can we do? |
| 1:31.4 | Have documented, often in real time, everything from drone strikes to war crimes, |
| 1:38.1 | while sharing everyday life not only in besieged cities, but on the front lines too. |
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