5/7 The train ride back to Lviv from Uzghorod was again beautiful with Transcarpathian scenery, villages, mountains, forests and farms. Most of the day was spent on the train. Becky…

9/7 Sunday in Odesa. Luba who coordinates the volunteer medical clinics into de-occupied areas invited me to church this morning. She doesn’t speak much English to organised a young lady…

12/7 Another pre-sunrise start on a train for me, starting to get to know the route to the train station very well. I travelled to Ivano-Frankivsk with Yulia who is…

15/7 A harrowing day at Hostomel. For those who don’t recognise that name- it’s the northern area of Kyiv not far from the Belarusian border where Russian troops invaded Ukraine…

17/7A lovely Ukrainian doctor I had met last week in Odesa invited me to come and do some interviews in her home town of Bila Tserkva (literally ‘white churches’) with…

18/7 Woke to the news that Russia conducted a massive missile and drone attack on Odesa last night. The city I’d just been the week before. Thankfully air defence worked…

20/7Today was a heavier day as I interviewed two people for hours, both with intense experiences.David was a young neurosurgeon who works in Dnipro hospital, one of the receiving hospitals…

This day marks the continuity of the Ukrainian nation for over a thousand years and counters the hostile  narratives of the Russians around Ukraine as a ‘fake’ state. It marks…

22/7 We said goodbye to everyone at camp including our lovely interpreter. Always hard to take when people so effusively thank you for coming to their country during war and…