Ukraine War Diaries: EP35 - The bloody dark, bathroom pits & the blitz of Kyiv (Nov 28 2Dec)

Published: Dec. 3, 2022, 1 a.m.

b'Under siege in Kyiv, Ilyas endures his longest blackout.
Military volunteer, Seva, sources chainsaws for comrades in the east and in her mind, Oksana visits the rooftop of her apartment block to offer a god-like view of a Ukrainian capital under siege.
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OUR DIARISTS
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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 December 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv.
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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.\\xa0
Many of Oksana\\u2019s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She\\u2019s continues to try and make a life there.
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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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EP57 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'