In this special first-person account, ITV News Correspondent Dan Rivers reflects on his experiences reporting on the first few weeks of the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

Dan shares what it was like to broadcast on the eve of war before lying awake all night as the invasion started and, within hours, the events that led him to the very frontline of the conflict.

He describes witnessing the devastating aftermath as cities and towns were destroyed and people left sifting through the rubble for loved ones and their possessions and the emotional toll of seeing such horrors.

Recorded back in the UK before he set off to return to the conflict, Dan also addresses the power of the images he has shared with the world after a series of his tweets capturing moments of Ukrainian defiance went viral.