Using Wats App voice-note to record his experiences, Seva visits a recently liberated village near Kyiv where locals share a deeply troubling story.

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.

EP11 was made using WhatsApp voice notes.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern

How does war impact our closest relationships?
Speaking from Kyiv, Oksana, reflects on how the the conflict has changed - and is continuing to change - her marriage.

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.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern
Digital production - David Chipakupaku
Episode produced by Rob Mulhern with Anne-Marie Bullock
Production co-ordination - Paul Stanworth and Annie Joyce

Amid unconfirmed reports of a chemical weapons attack in Mariupol, Ilyas takes the train from Lviv to Kyiv. Here, he meets with his 84-year-old grandmother who is increasingly comparing the Nazi fascists who came to her village in 1942 with ‘Russists’ — a term now used in Ukraine to reference the extreme actions of Russian invaders.

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.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern
Digital production - David Chipakupaku
Production co-ordination - Paul Stanworth and Annie Joyce.

In the early days of the war, some residents fleeing Kyiv, were forced to leave their pets behind.
One such resident was Oksana’s neighbour - the owner of a blue and yellow parrot called Rio. Not only is the parrot now living with Oksana, he’s - at times - helping to divert her attention away from the war.

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.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern
Digital production - David Chipakupaku
Production support - Paul Stanworth and Annie Joyce.

From Kyiv, 40-year-old Seva is a CEO turned volunteer now helping to equip the Ukrainian army with essential aid. Included in his supply drops, to battalions located close to the frontline, are pictures, painted by children, pleading for the soldiers to win the war.

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.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern
Digital production - David Chipakupaku

Oksana struggles to make sense of alleged war crimes, committed in her once quiet neighbourhood, which have horrified the world.

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.

Recorded on 6 April 2022

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern with Anne-Marie Bullock
Digital production - David Chipakupaku

Amid international condemnation of alleged war crimes and civilian killings by Russian forces, Ilyas finds an escape in the form of an old school friend.

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.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern
Digital production - David Chipakupaku

Anti-Aircraft batteries continue to light up the skies around Kyiv, despite Russia’s suggested shift in focus away from the capital. Against this backdrop, Oksana and her husband try to enjoy their first movie-night since the conflict began. This experience leads to some curious conclusions.

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.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.

Series producer - Rob Mulhern

With the Russians signalling a scaling back of their operations around Kyiv, Ilyas is making plans to return to his family home in the capital. But his wife and children, now in Poland, sense danger and don’t want him to leave Lviv.

Ukraine War Diaries uses audio recorded on the ground in Ukraine to give a first-person perspective of day-to-day life in a war zone.

From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series StoryCast.

Series producer Rob Mulhern.

New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Alex is a musician with Ukrainian folk-rock band Selo i Ludy.

Under siege in Kharkiv, in the east of the country, he and his fellow band members are taking refuge - and remarkably still recording music - in a studio now doubling as a bomb shelter.

In the second instalment of our audio diary series, following day-to-day life in a warzone, Alex describes how he continues to play with his band as the city is destroyed around them.

From the producers of Sky News' award-winning series StoryCast.

Producer: Rob Mulhern

New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.