In Lviv, I had the opportunity to meet up with some friends who introduced me to Yuri; he's, initially from Luhansk, an area that Russia invaded back in 2014, he now lives in Kiev. He is a medical student that decided to join the Ukrainian military as a medic to help his country fight back against Russian aggression and to help his fellow countrymen. I asked him to describe the invasion of the Donbas in 2014 as a story that is rarely told and has found new meaning and insight within this war for Ukrainian survival. This was during early april a month into the invasion, where he, as well as the country as a whole, was facing an uncertain future. (This interview is abridged and spit into 2 parts)