“When I look at a beautiful building [now]I have this little kind of flash when I see it destroyed by a rocket or a fire, and you know, it doesn’t really take a lot of imagination to see that,” he explains.<\/p>\n
“I just see it for a second and then I have to go back, calm down, it’s okay.”<\/p>\n
Returning from a road trip to visit Ukrainian friends in Belgium recently, Oksana reveals how her bus drove away from a group of airstrikes, while Russian forces targeted urban centers along the route she was traveling.<\/p>\n Since the start of the war, Oksana and the residents of Kyiv have endured missile attacks and hundreds of air raid alerts.<\/p>\n In the first weeks of the war, a second home that Oksana owns in Bucha, a region now synonymous with allegations of war crimes, was raided and used as a base by Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n “I think [the hallucinations] they are connected with me observing a lot of destruction in real time in the Kyiv region and also in different parts of Ukraine,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n “It happens everywhere.”<\/p>\n From the creators of Sky News’ award-winning StoryCast, Ukraine War Diaries is a weekly podcast that follows those living on Europe’s new front line and those who have escaped it.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\n Oksana (right) and her partner Seva live in central Kyiv<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Oksana](\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/22\/08\/768x432\/skynews-oksana-ukraine-war-diaries_5860628.jpg?20220810162750\")
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\n Oksana (right) tells Sky News Ukraine War Diaries about her experience living on Europe’s new front line<\/span><\/p>\n