Boris Johnson: Into The Kill Zone | Preview (5)

Four years after leaving Downing Street, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson travels to Ukraine's frontline, into the 'kill zone', to find out first-hand what is happening four years into Putin’s full-scale invasion of the country. 

Having returned to his roots as a journalist, Boris travels beyond the headlines and into the reality of a war that has become a brutal contest of endurance, technology and survival.

Under the constant threat of Russian drones hunting targets from above, deep inside the ‘kill zone’ Boris seeks out soldiers living with the threat of death every day: infantrymen holding exposed trench lines, elite drone operators waging a new kind of war through screens and signals, and construction workers turned bomb-makers by necessity.

Behind the military struggle lies an even more powerful human story. Boris talks to soldiers whose bodies bear the scars of battle, have lost colleagues and hears about the harsh realities of conscription forced on a nation who did not choose this war. He learns firsthand how this war reaches far beyond the battlefield, touching wives, children, parents and loved ones forced to live with uncertainty, grief and separation.

From the eerie calm of drone command posts to the danger of frontline positions where every movement can be seen from the sky, Boris confronts a conflict unlike any in modern history. What he discovers is not only the extraordinary resilience of the Ukrainian people, but the true cost of defending freedom when the consequences of failure are measured in lives.

Boris Johnson: Into The Kill Zone airs Friday 24th July on 5.