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Often driving alone, sometimes with a small group, Seva Koshel is no stranger to frontline supply drops into eastern Ukraine.

This week, while on on assignment — and recording for the Sky News Ukraine War Diaries podcast — the military volunteer finds himself in the Bakhmut region of Donetsk, one of the war’s fiercest battlegrounds. 

“I visited a tank battalion in one of the brigades, and have brought them medicine as always. And they were glad because they’re constantly out of it.

“And in any war, of course, there are killed and injured. And they need this to be supplied time and time again.

“By the way, in Donetsk region, there have been a lot of guys whom I met and they’re actually from this region and are jealous of our commander of armed forces of Ukraine, because we are de-occupying south of Ukraine and [they’re] dreaming when we will de-occupy Donetsk and Luhansk, and to say honestly, I have never seen such patriots. 

“They are Russian speaking, but they hate Russia and all connected with Russia even more than we do here in Kiev or the western part of Ukraine.

“For me it was quite a surprise. But that’s true. That’s how it is.”

Listen to Seva’s complete diary in the latest episode of Ukraine War Diaries.