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…

A horrowing day at Hostomel as we travel through 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…

24th July Yesterday and today I pretty much spent organising photos and videos and trying to translate and edit the videos of the army chaplain who had been killed. I…

Ukraine (12) 27th JulyHad a good nights sleep with only one air raid siren and despite being on the floor, having norunning water and after seeing the horrors of the…