Ukraine War Diaries

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EP68 - One year, three lives & our stories of war (Feb 25)

EP67 - Zelenskyy the great, loving power & ‘the smell of Spring’ (Feb 13-17)

EP66 - Barbarity in Bakhmut, bedding parcels & Kharkiv buyer’s guide (Feb 6-10)

EP65 - Strollers, sacrifice & the Spring offensive (Jan 30-3 Feb)

EP64 - Tanks, transfers & the threat of doing nothing (Jan 23-27)

EP63 - Dnipro, despair & waiting for deliverance (Jan 16-20)

EP62 - Comedy nights, corroding childhoods, & checking out at the gym (Jan 9-13)

 EP61 - Birthday at the pictures, pizza nights & polish pick-ups (Jan 2-6)

EP60 - Fond memories, fallen soldiers & our first war-time Christmas (Dec 25-31)

EP59 - From a city under siege, a very Ukrainian Christmas story (Dec 13-24)

EP58 - Snowy returns, surviving by smartphone & going south (Dec 5-9)

EP57 - The bloody dark, bathroom pits & the blitz of Kyiv (Nov 28 – 2Dec)

EP56 - Ghosts of Chernobyl, going south & grave phone calls (Nov 21-24)

EP55 - Russian fury, freezing down & the price of freedom (Nov 14-18)

EP54 - Limping into darkness, lost limbs & longing for Kyiv (Nov 7-11)

EP53 - More Russian payloads, Putin’s plan & Patriots (Oct 31-4 November)

EP52 - Death drones, prayers for dad & living with the dark (Oct 24-28)

EP51-Tactical nukes, thermo nukes, & what we really think? (Oct 17-21)

EP50 - Bombs, bunkers, blood, belief (Oct 10-14)

UPDATE: Ukraine War Diaries – ‘The missile hit the road cross not far away from the Kindergarten where my son used to go.’

EP49 - More Martyrs, muting Elon Musk, and marriage in the trenches (Oct 3-7)

EP26 - Nuclear alarm, naked enemies & crazy neighbours (Sept 26-30)

EP48 - Nuclear alarm, naked enemies & crazy neighbours (Sept 26-30)

EP47 - Sitting room soldiers, solidarity & a second Bucha (Sept 19-23)

EP46 - Piggy banks, pitstops & taking the fight to Putin (Sept 12-16)

EP45 - Hacking Russia, new runways & releasing the grip of war (Sept 5-9)

EP44 - A nuclear ransom, road trips & the real me! (Aug 29-2 Sept)

EP43: Call of duty & explosions of independence (Aug 22-25)

EP42: What now for Ilyas, Seva, Oksana & Ukraine? (Aug 15-19)

EP41: Combat stress, stoicism & a special journey (Aug 8-12)

EP40: Law of the gun, the longest road & a new code (Aug 1-5)

EP39: Distant thunder, air raids & the therapy of tears (July 25-29)

EP38 - Green jeeps, cold chills & a new city view (July 18-22)

EP37 - Warrior citizens & when a girl ‘checks’ a nation (July 11-15)

EP36: Missile strikes, lone missions & the thunder of war (July 4-8)  

EP35: War waiters, fresh starts & a memory sent from Poland (June 13-17)

EP34: Ilyas - ‘Staring into playgrounds I can see my old life.’ (10 June)

EP33: Natalia – ‘Starting a new life without my husband.’

EP32: Oksana - ‘For just two hours I forgot the war.’ (6 June)

EP31: Oksana - 'In Ukraine we know who the Queen is!' (3 June)

EP30: Seva - ‘Chainsaws & axes, what I’m delivering now to the frontline.’ (1 June)

EP29: Ilyas - ‘Stopping the war in my head.’ (30 May)

EP28: Oksana - 'My life before the war.' (27 May)

EP27: Seva - 'My life before the war.' (25 May)

EP26: Ilyas - ‘My life before the war.’ (23 May)

EP25: Seva - 'GoFundMe a helicopter.’ (20 May)

EP24: Oksana - ‘After Russian soldiers invade your home.’ (18 May)

EP23: Ilyas - ‘Buying toys in a war zone, my weird reality clash.’ (16 May)

EP21: Seva - ‘Facing death, they’re joking and talking about the Eurovision.’(13 May)