Against the backdrop of further Russian advances in the east - and while returning from another mission - Seva reflects on a significant supply drop to the frontline.
In Kyiv, despite soaring temperatures, |lyas begins to worry about the winter to come.
Meanwhile, Oksana charts an emotional, and wandering, first journey beyond the borders of wartime Ukraine - recording this week\u2019s diary from Brussels.
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\u2019s originally from a small village near Dnipro.
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Ilyas is an IT specialist and married father who fled from Kyiv to Lviv shortly after the war started. Right now his wife Natalia, and two young sons are taking refuge in Poland.
As of July 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv and working, in part, for the Ukrainian government on various projects.
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Oksana, 34, 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.\xa0
Many of Oksana\u2019s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She\u2019s 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.
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EP16 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note.
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From the producers of Sky News\u2019 multi-award winning series \u2013 StoryCast.
Series producer: Robert Mulhern
Editing: Paul Stanworth