Ukraine War Diaries: EP38 - Fond memories, fallen soldiers & our first war-time Christmas (Dec 25-31)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Meanwhile Seva shares the Christmas reality of comrades who continue to fight through the festive period.
And Ilyas, looks to the New Year with hope.
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 December 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv.
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. Many of Oksana’s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She’s continues to try and make a life there. 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.
EP38 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note.
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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 |
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| 0:31.4 | travel in London, think TFL. With the daily cap fair frozen until March 27, travel as much as you like on tube, bus, Elizabeth Line, DLR and Overground, knowing you'll never pay any more than £8.90 in Zones 1 and 2. |
| 0:48.3 | Download TFL Go to plan your journey. To the Mayor of London and TFL, every journey matters. |
| 0:55.2 | Always use the same card of device when touching in and out for full terms and conditions such TFL fair capping. |
| 1:05.5 | Hey everyone, this is Aksana in Kiev and it's Christmas week. |
| 1:14.0 | You know, winter holidays have always been my favorite. |
| 1:19.0 | Christmas, New Year's have always seemed very magical because, you know, this is everybody's holiday. |
| 1:22.7 | Everybody gets to share the celebrations. |
| 1:24.7 | Everybody gets to be festive. |
| 1:26.9 | And, you know, growing up in the 90s, |
| 1:30.4 | in a post-Soviet country, it was quite tough because, you know, we didn't get access to |
| 1:37.8 | lots of different telecasies, good food, good drinks. |
| 1:44.8 | Anything imported from overseas was like a super rare thing that you couldn't get even if you did have the money to buy it. |
| 1:53.0 | But my parents have always tried to make this period very festive and very special, very magical. |
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