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Hello, it's 678 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And let me start this episode with the it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And let me start this episode with an email we received from Viv in Hampshire,

who says,

I had to write after listening to your pre-Christmas episode which featured the songs for

Ukraine chorus.

Oh the great cuckoo was so so beautiful that I listened to it again right away and will listen to it in the future.

I've loved all the Ukrainian music that you've played along the way,

but this song was special. The situation in Ukraine is heartbreaking, but the energy of the chorus's singing was uplifting.

Thank you for bringing us news of the war but also giving us an insight into the

amazing Ukrainian spirit. That's a lovely email vive and I think that Ukrainian spirit. That's a lovely email Viv and I think that Ukrainian spirit you see time and time again

strengthened by the continued threat that it faces. You know you saw those images of people singing in their flats in Odessa this past

week as missiles rain down and it's something that always strikes you that the meaning of being a

Ukrainian for so many people is only brought into greater clarity when Russia tries to increasingly undermine it or

destroy the country completely.

This is a crane cast.

Ukraine cast from BBC News.

Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain.

Millions of people are without heating, without water. Putin is the aggressor.

He will be ready to use nuclear weapons.

They killed him and flat.

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