You could hide during that ——,
say in a cellar, and now nowhere. This is a —— you
can't hide from. I don't know mate,
it's a lot of shelling. Buildings ripped apart, destroyed
burnt out ——, cars on their side. And we've come further towards
the Russian position now. Vladimir Putin has launched a
major —— operation again. Today this building
was ——. Sounds you can hear behind us is
Russian artillery hitting the city. Just wanted to destroy
this civilization. - This is my house.
- This is your house? So, what you're saying is this ——
is more scary than World —— II? Every man will fight. Bits of ——.
—— smell. - This is Russian world.
- Destruction everywhere. When they go outside, they feel like
they're playing lottery with their life. You and her
heart are near. Unexploded —— here, destroyed buildings everywhere, the air
raid sirens going off in the background. This one's completely burnt out. It's probably one of the ——
cities in the world at the moment. Let's see how this goes. It's really quite hard for me to
convey how many —— holes are here. Now we've been told to stay right here because
they expect that a Russian counter artillery... Welcome back to another
day in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Second-biggest
city in Ukraine. Population before the
invasion of 1.4 million roughly, and now that's
been split in half. People have fled. Many people still staying here, some
in —— shelters in the metro stations, some people sticking
it out in their homes. There's heavy artillery strikes
in the background, you can hear, we've been hearing them all morning
today, they've actually been quite heavy, the heaviest since
we've been here. Good morning everyone, and
welcome to our balcony in Kharkiv. The sounds you can hear behind
us is Russian artillery hitting the city which it does basically
like this every morning, I mean, the first time you hear it, you
wake up pretty shocked and pretty frightened but the 10th, 20th, 30th time basically
means absolutely nothing to you. Today we're going out, we're
going to meet up with a soldier, he's going to take us out to a village
which was under occupation by the Russians. We're going to see who we can meet,
see what it was like living there, luckily we've got access
with the —— this time. See sirens in the background,
——, this is a —— zone. So, today we are going out to one of the recently
liberated villages, and the Ukrainian ——'s
push to retake Kharkiv Oblast. Now, we've been trying to do
that for a couple of days now, haven't been successful, but we've got a friend
with quite high-ranking contacts in the —— who said that they can arrange
us a —— escort to take us out there, so we're hoping that today will
be the day our luck comes through. Thank you. We just arrived here and there's a huge
smashed up building behind you, right? This is where we're
meeting the ——, right? Yeah, we hope so. So we're just jumping in another
car now and heading out there. So, in the field behind us, we just passed
a shot down, really busted up helicopter. There was some pretty intense
fighting here very recently. So we've driven probably like
half an hour or so out of Kharkiv, and then we saw a huge
artillery in the field just now. Yeah, we did, there were
two massive howitzers and over here as you can see,
we've got a really busted up ——, now we know this one's Russian,
you can see the infamous Z sign that it's got painted on
the side of it right there. So we can hear in the distance
artillery, consistently, right? Yeah, you can hear incoming and
outgoing artillery quite consistently. We're pretty close
to the front lines now, and there were battles here
taking place just days or weeks ago. Tom, what exactly just happened
because that was absolutely wild? Yeah so basically the
Ukrainians just fired a massive artillery battery
pretty much right next to us. We could see about 10,15
rockets just go over our heads. Now, we've been told
to stay right here because they expect a Russian
counter artillery... Well, there you go. So, that helicopter's
just over there, you can see it on the
ground, it's got a Z on it. This is right in the
middle, it's insane. So, we've just driven about two minutes from
where we saw those —— going overhead. We've met a local man here,
can you introduce him? - Nikolai.
- Nikolai, same as me. Many people have left this area because
of the fighting, why have you not? Not so many, here about
10 people have left. We just heard insane artillery going
overhead, is that just normal around here? We've got used to it, but
it's scary nonetheless. And you'll stay here,
no matter what happens? I've got nowhere to go. Is there any message that
Nikolai would like to give to the world about
what's going on here? Of course there is hope, there is hope for
the better, but what actually will happen. And the people who are causing this ——,
is there anything he wants to say to them? I can't, it's not clear
what happened. We'll live the rest of our lives in
Ukraine, we won't go to Russia, my son lives in Russia,
but I don't want to go there. Are you speaking with
your son currently? No, I'm not speaking
to him currently. He'd, of course,
take me if I came, but I was born here,
I don't want to go anywhere. Does his son know
what's going on here? Of course, he knows. And what are his thoughts?
What are the son's thoughts? He keeps silent. I've gone through one ——
already, it's different now. - World —— II?
- Yeah, yeah. And so, does this feel
similar to World —— II? You could hide during that ——,
say in a cellar, and now nowhere. This is a —— you
can't hide from. So, what you're saying is, this ——
is more scary than World —— II? - Yes, yes.
- By a lot. Can I ask how
old Nikolai is? Eighty-three. You faced some
incredible things in your life, do you have any
advice about life? You've lived through two, you're
living through one terrible ——, and you've lived through one
of the worst wars of the world, do you have
advice for anybody? What can I advise, Russians and
Ukrainians still can't make peace. What's important in life? I can only recommend you health and so that you live long,
you'll need to replenish. So this is the village of
Mayagonya, it was liberated, but as you can see, it's
still the site of heavy fighting, now we've been told that the soldiers here
they —— a young girl who lived here, they also burned
some houses down, and they also engaged in
quite widespread looting as well. The girl that, we obviously
don't know the identity, but she's left the country, right?
She's placed in Europe somewhere. Yes, they told us that she's safe and
that she's outside of Ukraine now. So, we were talking
earlier to one of the soldiers who's been fighting
on the front lines here, he said that the Russians have tried to
assault this village again several times but every time
they've been repelled, and he said more or less they
suck at fighting, and we're gonna win. What's going on? I don't know mate, it's a lot of
shelling, it's outgoing over there, so it was just outgoing fire from
Ukraine coming from over there and hitting Russian positions a
few kilometers away that way. So, at this stage we went
through a few more villages and just saw
absolute despair. In this village in particular
there was nobody to be seen and just absolute devastation
like I've never seen. Buildings ripped apart. Destroyed, burnt out ——, cars
on their side, houses destroyed. So, we just stopped in this farm in
the fields in between some villages. We were waiting to get clearance
to move from place to place, because there is artillery
fire like right next to us all the —— have to be
obviously communicating, make sure accidents
don't happen. So, here we are in this farm
which was struck by an attack. I think this was occupied
by the Russians as well. They're also doing
humanitarian work here? Yes, I think what we heard is
that some of the people here are cooking food
for the soldiers and the people who are
in the affected villages. Yeah, it's just amazing that the
farmers are still going about their day, like we see them cleaning up
and doing jobs and things, right? Artillery is going over
their heads, you know. So as you can see behind me,
some of the cows are still here. A lot of the animals were
—— during the ——. We just heard from
the main farmer here and she was explaining that the Russians
would come in and —— at her for fun and then when they missed,
and they drove past her again they said, we'll
get you tomorrow, that's just what
she was saying so... What can you say to that. At this stage, we went closer
to the Russian positions, things started to get
intense quite quickly. We were driving at extremely high
speeds down this highway, 150 km/h. There were rockets sticking
out of the road in parts. Driving around
destroyed bridges. There were huge Ukrainian
artillery and —— vehicles, obviously I couldn't film them
not to give away their positions, but there was an extremely
heavy —— presence. There were ——
aircraft going overhead, and we were just driving down this road,
dodging holes from rocket strikes. I was told the reason that
we had to drive so quickly, that we could easily be targeted
by the Russians driving here, so the faster we move, the better. And whenever we parked it's best
to park under trees, or under a bridge, or under shelter just like the
Ukrainian —— vehicles were doing. We've driven down
the motorway a bit, past heaps of huge ——
equipment, huge artillery vehicles, and we've come to these destroyed
apartment blocks here down the street. This whole trip today has been led
by two Ukrainian —— women. We've driven for quite a bit
further going like super fast, like 150km/h and we've come further
towards the Russian position now. Yes, we're in a
place called Chuhuiv, which is if you see here, it's actually
on the road between Kharkiv and Izyum now Izyum is where the Russian headquarters
for the Donbass offensive are now, so it means that the
Ukrainians have obviously made pretty major gains in
the last couple of weeks if they're able to take us
this close to the main road where the Russian
headquarters are, really. I just saw a lady in the second
window from the top to the very left, the lady just came and looked out
and then walked back into her house, so, I don't know, she's living
in there, what's going on there, but this is a recently destroyed building
and there's still a woman just in there. They do evacuate people. Like, they evacuate some people,
and they take them to Kharkiv but there are just a lot of people who will
just refuse to leave, no matter what. On the way here we saw lots of
Ukrainian artillery in hiding spots in petrol stations, under
bridges and things like that, and you were saying
something interesting, Tom, about some decoys and things that the
Ukrainians come and pull out sometimes. So, it's a really, really
weird game of cat and mouse between the Russians and the Ukrainians,
no one knows how it might work, so for instance we saw some very
old howitzers that were pulled out that probably wouldn't have
been that much use in a fight. They're the kind of things that
you can afford to lose very easily because they're not very expensive, and they're
getting replaced by modern western artillery, so what it could have been, it could have been
a decoy, because then the Russians can fire and when the Russians fire, Ukrainian
radar can pick up their positions and then the Ukrainians with their
newer western artillery can fire back now that they've
pinpointed their position. Just arrived in this village
and this looks quite fresh. So, most of the houses
that we've been seeing, you can still kind of make
out that they're houses, right? But this one, not so much. This is the crater here. This is the crater
of the ——, yeah, so one single —— absolutely
devastated all the buildings around us. So, we've made it back to
the city center of Kharkiv. I don't really have
words to describe, you know, obviously what we just
saw, the access that we just got, it was because we were rolling with
some pretty heavy names in press, and so we got that, it's really
exclusive press access, it was really beyond anything I could ever imagine,
being that close to the front lines. Still explosions going on, you
can hear them in the background. Never would have expected to be that close and
when the artillery was flying over our heads, but it's not going to come through
on the camera, I guarantee it, radiates through your entire
body, it's so loud, so captivating. Absolutely
mental, you know. Sad news like, less
than an hour ago in the zoo here in Kharkiv
there's been an attack and a young 15-year-old teenage
boy was saving and evacuating animals trying to get them to a
safer place, and he was —— trying to save the animals, and that's just
happening, you know, real time right now. Very —— place,
more —— right now, but we just went and had some food,
it's a beautiful little cafe and things, and it's so surreal to see life go
on while we're in amongst all this, it's one of the most bizarre
things I've ever seen, but of course, it makes sense, people
have to go on with their lives right? But it's very strange. You know, there's this
beautiful hip kind of cafe, world-class food,
beautiful salads and things, and then outside the
window you hear ——, and then you check the news and
somebody's —— not far from here trying to save animals, you
know, young boy, it's insane. There was a part today that we couldn't
go to because apparently there were dead —— still lying there,
and that was a restricted zone that we had planned on going, but a battle
had taken place quite recently so... Anyway, got an
interesting story now. Friend Tom is going to show
you something he had here, he had done here recently,
and it just kind of shows like how much of this
work is his life. The mirror fountain it's one of the
sort of symbols of the city of Kharkiv, is one of the famous
architectural monuments standing in front of one of the
most beautiful churches in the city and because of the time I've
been here and the work I've done it's been very impactful
on me, so I decided to get, as you can see, a
sort of souvenir. Something interesting
about the tattoos is that the tattoo parlor here is
actually still doing tattoos, right? And we're going to swing by and
see if they're open at the moment, see if they'll tell us
a bit about their work. Yeah, so as far
as we understand, they're the only tattoo
parlor left in Kharkiv, they did this for me about a week ago, and we
know that they're still working at the moment, and they say that actually
business has been booming, a lot of soldiers have coming,
they've got things like their regiment or they've got like tattoos of ——
made on them because they've got nowhere else to spend their money, and
they're getting paid quite a lot of money for what they're doing
in the —— right now. So, this is Charlie,
resident dog tattoo artist. Good boy.
Good boy. So we've come into Pain
Street Tattoo parlor in Kharkiv and this is Tim,
and we have Hannah. You were just telling
me about a scenario when a rocket hit like
150 meters from here. Yeah about 150
meters from this place and the whole electricity was shut down and during that moment Hannah had a
client, and it was necessary to
finish the tattoo at that day, so Hannah turned
on her headlight, put the special battery
into her tattoo machine, and we continued to
do it totally in the dark. So you had a really great idea just now, because Tom, you know,
he's a bit of a madman, he's going to get another tattoo
today, and we're going to simulate. You said it'd be a good idea, to
show what happened on that day when 150 meters away a
rocket hit just around the corner and when a rocket hits they
have to shut down the electricity because in case
of fires and things. Yes, so we can now
show you how it was and simulate those
situation to the details. Okay, amazing,
let's do it. What tattoo are you
going to get, Tom? A small love heart with the
colors of Ukraine, blue and yellow. So the lights are
going off, right? So we're all done with Tom's tattoo,
came out pretty epic, I think. Tim, you were saying that you have your hand in
a lot of charity work around here in the region, can you just explain
a little bit about that? Starting the fourth day of ——, we organized our
own volunteer group, we called ourselves The
Juicy Strudel Volunteer Kitchen. - Juicy Strudel?
- Juicy Strudel, that's right. And we started to feed people. Right now, we are making about
800 portions of hot meals, soups, we make our own bread,
300 pieces of bread. - A day?
- A day, yes. And we share this food
with hospitals, subways where people living right now. We're like Uber food, we
deliver food for apartments, people call us saying like, two
old people, we don't have money, we don't have an ability
to cook or whatever, we say no problem, what
kind of food do you need? What kind of medicine
do you need? We bring it. Can you just explain,
you were telling me before, about how you get used to ——,
but you never get used to hunger because I thought
that was quite powerful. During living in a basement
it's a hard time really, you never expected
anything like this in your life, somehow you need to get
used to it and get through it. We have a motto of
our volunteer group that you can get used
to anything and situation right now in
Kharkiv in Ukraine proves it. There is only one thing you can
never get used to, it's hunger. You were saying every day that four children
are —— in Ukraine at the moment. Yes the statistic is painful,
six children's a day. Yes, six children's a day, so
it's one child every four hours. I miscalculated the numbers,
yes, six children's a day. Every help that right
now goes to Ukraine, every person who shares
information about Ukraine, it all chains of one huge
chain which lead us to victory and if we combine
our energy, our powers will make the —— faster
at least for one day it's already six
children will live. And that's only kids, there's also adults
as well dying on top of that right? The amount of
adults is much higher, and I don't know the statistic
right now because I actually, I don't have enough strength
to watch news every day, I did it for 30 days,
and then I said no, I have to work for people, no matter what's
going on in the country, I don't have emotional resources
watching what's going on in Bucha, what's going
on in other cities, I just have not enough
emotional resources. Just to finish off, is there any
words that you would like to share to the world in general
just about the ——? - —— sucks.
- Well, she's straight. A lot of my friends all around
the world, all around the globe asking me how far to
the end, how much time, I stopped counting
the days to the victory because the main
parameter is now not a time is human lives, so the main question
is not how long, but how much lives Ukraine should
give to stand against aggressor, how much soldiers
would —— on the front line, how much kids would ——
starving in cities like Bucha. I appreciate
you guy's time. - Thank you.
- Thank you so much. So, all guys from our
group have the same. The flak jacket? Yes, the flak jacket,
and I have to wear it even when I go shopping for
buying milk, bread, whatever because I know that if rocket
drops somewhere around I'm not the one who will run
away, I'll try to help someone, and also, I know
the Russian tactics, if you hit the rocket
anywhere wait 30 minutes and hit one more
time in the same place, it happens everywhere
in Ukraine right now. So basically, what they
do is they drop a rocket to cause the initial
damage and then... And call the people for help and then where more people in
that area they drop another one. So, they're targeting
the humanitarian. Yes, yes, and it's
happening all the time, and we are getting used to it
also, we are prepared for this. Okay, so we're on
the way to Kyiv. All the curtains on the inside
of the train are shut, so the lights and the carriages can't be
seen from outside, so they're not targeted. The train lines are
still running pretty well, some of the stations
have been targeted, but luckily Ukraine has such
a large network of train lines that even if train lines are
damaged, from what I've been told, easy to circumnavigate
these damages, but fortunately the train
lines are still largely working. Anyway, I'll see you in Kyiv,
I'm absolutely exhausted. So fortunately, everything
went smoothly with the train ride, stopped off in
Kyiv for a little bit, but ultimately left the country
and returned back to Hungary, it was a 40-hour train ride. This trip was by far the
most extreme trip of my life. I think this episode speaks
to that quite clearly. The suffering and the pain
that I've seen on this trip is almost impossible for me
to even try to put into words, so I'm just going to
leave it with the images, if you want to check out Tim
and Hannah's volunteer work I'll leave their Instagram's below,
they've got information there, how you can support them,
they're doing incredible work. I am also doing another
fundraiser alongside that, we're really close to
our goal of $120 000 USD. Huge thank you to everybody
who's been watching this series and on top of that, a huge thank
you to everybody who's donated, and if you want to donate and
get over that goal of $120 000 USD that would be
greatly appreciated. A huge thank you to everybody
who made this series possible. Stas and Yevheniy at
the start of the series, and Tom who really was my right-hand man in
Kharkiv, without him, I would have been
lost, he really showed me everything. He obviously is more trained
in these combat scenarios, so huge thank you to Tom,
please check him out on Instagram, I'll leave that below he's also got a
twitter if you want to check that out. I believe he's more or
less based in Ukraine covering the —— and
has been for months. He's a very knowledgeable guy,
as you can see from the videos, so a huge thanks to Tom
for basically keeping me alive. That's the end of
the Ukraine series. Was the most exhausting
trip of my life by far, being in such high-risk
areas but like I've mentioned, I'm not living there,
I can go there, I can come back to a safe
house, to a safe country. What I experience is
nothing in comparison. My heart is with the
innocent people of Ukraine who were just living their lives, and one day they wake up
and they're being bombarded. I'll see you on
the next series. Thank you so much for watching, and thanks
for all your support and kind words. In case I don't see you,
good afternoon, good evening
and good night.
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