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b'Recording on assignment, military volunteer Seva weighs the cost of fallen colleagues against Ukraine\\u2019s greater ambition to liberate the entire country.
In Kyiv, Oksana expresses her horror at billionaire Elon Musk\\u2019s controversial peace plan - which involved getting Twitter followers to vote on possible outcomes \\u2014 and at a world failing to grasp the threat of an apocalyptic conflict.\\xa0
Meanwhile,encouraged in part by the continued nuclear threat, Ilyas wonders about a spike in marriage nationally -
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BACKGROUND -
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*This week billionaire Elon Musk tweeted a poll on Twitter headlined \\u2018Ukraine-Russia Peace\\u2019 which asked his followers to vote yes or no to the following proposals
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- Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people.
\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783.
\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Water supply to Crimea assured.
\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Ukraine remains neutral.
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TIMECODES -
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0.00 - Seva
3.10 - Oksana
7.00 - Ilyas
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OUR DIARISTS
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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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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.
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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 October 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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EP27 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'