There are no guidelines on how to cope with seeing a war in your home country as a teen, so Hlib Bohdanov has been doing all he can to stay positive.

I met the 15-year-old schoolboy a few days ago, when he came to tell me about how he has started a fresh life in the UK.

He moved with his mother just over two months ago, on May 25 for a fresh start in Devizes, having left Ukraine.

At a first glance, you would have no idea what the teenager has been through, as he sat smiling, openly telling me about his experience.

“We come from a big city in Eastern Ukraine, and I love it here in Devizes.

“Our city was not shelled a lot, although the rockets flew and explosions were heard - it wasn’t as devastated as Mariupol or cities closer to Russia”, he explained.

Hlib comes from Dnipro, where around one million people live.

He added: “When we were leaving there were lots of defensive buildings, lots of sandbags, sand cubes and trenches.

“The windows of the shops were barricaded so it really looked like something out of a zombie movie.”

I couldn’t begin to comprehend how the notion of hearing explosions had become a normality for people like Hlib so quickly.

“What was going through your head when you saw that?”, I asked him.

“It always thought about how it’s going to be better, but sometimes all those thoughts made me wonder what if a rocket falls into my house.

“I always closed my bedroom curtains because I was afraid that if an explosion happens, the fragments of glass would fall on me.”

He took out his phone and showed me an online channel that he is part of, which sends alerts to people of nearby or coming explosions in different areas.

Hlib has settled into the town almost seamlessly and is in no rush to return to his home country any time soon.

The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald: Hlib Bohdanov and his mother, Nataliia Borysova.Hlib Bohdanov and his mother, Nataliia Borysova.

He said: “It's very different here as I really hated the loudness in Dnipro, and the air was unbreathable.

“We have a big, coal power electric station on the industrial bank of the river, and it’s polluted stuff.

“Now I’m here, after you survive through it, your brain gets used to it all- and I think I would like to stay here in Devizes where it feels like a new home."