Ukraine War Diaries: Ghost cities and patriots

By Robert Mulhern, Ukraine War Diaries producer Often driving alone, sometimes with a small group, Seva Koshel is no stranger to frontline supply drops into eastern Ukraine. Click to subscribe to Ukraine War Diaries wherever you get your podcasts From medical kits to modified army vehicles and more recently, generators, the 40-year-old military volunteer completes regular assignments for Ukrainian soldiers positioned at the very spear-tip of the fight against Russia. In the last eight months, now part-time CEO Seva has witnessed everything from war crimes to deadly air attacks. He has also suffered the loss of fallen comrades. After eight months of fighting, war and its associated horrors have become something of a grim routine. But this week, at the end of a lonely road that leads to one of the war's fiercest battlegrounds, there's a surprise - unshakable resolve in the form of Russian-speaking Ukrainian fighters. "If I say to someone [in Kyiv or in Ukraine] 'Bakhmut district', they u