Ukraine War Diaries: EP29 - Tactical nukes, thermo nukes, & what we really think? (Oct 17-21)

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, midnight

b'After escaping Russia\\u2019s single biggest one-day attack on Kyiv, Oksana catches her breath in Madrid, where she tries to second guess what Vladimir Putin\\u2019s forces are going to do next?
Meanwhile, recording in the basement of his Kyiv apartment block during an air-raid, Ilyas outlines what he - and many Ukrainians - are being told in respect of a nuclear attack.

OUR DIARISTS

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.

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.

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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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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EP29 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'