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There's been about half a dozen instances where a block of housing or a residential area has been hit.

You just have to sort of hope that's not going to happen to you that you're not going to be the unlucky person who has a missile land on your head.

I've split today's episode into two separate parts for reasons that will soon become

obvious because I'll explain them now. I did that bit in the other episode about pirates

so if you've already listened to that one then you're thinking oh is he just

copied and pasted the same audio that's lazy but I haven't I've actually just

repeated the same sort of half it's not even really a joke, is it?

It's a half sort of surprising end to a sentence, and I've repeated it.

Colin Freeman is a British journalist and author who was chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph until 2016.

He mostly covered the Middle East and Africa and then one day he was kidnapped by Somali pirates

after his bodyguards double crossed him

the very people who were supposed to protect him so this part of the double episode though

is about Ukraine I rushed to complete it my editorie, who also has a role as my girlfriend, rushed as well to edit and complete it and get this out immediately.

You are a deserving audience and Ukraine could change at any moment of course so there's no use bringing this out you know in four or five weeks when everything might be different.

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