In London, Oksana seeks out an antidote to the horrors discovered by Ukrainian forces during this week\u2019s counter-offensive.
Returning from assignment in Ireland, military volunteer Seva makes a roadside pitstop in Poland to reflect on the Ukrainian army\u2019s breakthrough.
Meanwhile in Kyiv, for the first time since the Russian invasion, Ilyas can see a clear road-map to victory.
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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.\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.
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.
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.
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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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EP24 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.
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Producer: Rob Mulhern
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Digital Promotion: David Chipakupaku