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Hello, it's 713 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine,

and it's actually 10 years this month since Crimea. The bit of Ukraine to the south was

occupied by Russian forces and then later, well taken forcibly annexed is the

word that people use.

And we're going to be looking at what life is like for people living in Crimea and efforts

which Ukraine is making to try and reclaim the region today. But quick word about Vitali Pashchenko, our wonderful

friend of the podcast who was on with us last week, a student as you know, he wants to major in international relations

and use his incredible language skills and diplomatic skills to pursue good in the

world. That's how I would describe it but on last week's

podcast he told us about some of the abuse his own family had received while

staying in Poland the attitude of the Polish people of local polls it has just a little bit shifted

when it comes to Ukrainians.

In all way.

You start hearing more and more of this, you know, negative, I would say even hateful and resentful chatter against Ukrainians, things like, we don't need you lot here.

Go back to your country and fight there.

And Hannah, who lives in Poland somewhere, she didn't say where, emailed after listening to

Vitali Paschenco. My name's Hannah, I'm 26, I'm from Poland. As you might imagine, listening to Vittale's story was particularly painful for me

as it reflected what I have been observing from the very start of the war. I vividly remember

reading comments on Facebook using racial or xenophobic slurs to

refer to Ukrainians as early as March 2022. They obviously didn't represent the majority of you but nonetheless they were visible.

I genuinely hope that after the war there will be a place to conduct a thorough discussion

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