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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The UN estimates that nearly seven million Ukrainians have left their home country since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Many have set up businesses in their new country - around 90,000 of those in Poland.
We hear about the challenges they’ve faced, and the sectors which have thrived. And we ask; would they return to Ukraine if the war ended?
Produced and presented by Daniel Rosney
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0:00.0 | Nearly three and a half years ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion on its neighboring country, Ukraine. |
0:10.8 | It's only one way to serve our country from Russian occupation. |
0:16.7 | Since that day, the 24th of February 2022, |
0:25.2 | the United Nations estimates that nearly 7 million people have left Ukraine. |
0:30.5 | Most have chosen to stay in Europe, |
0:35.2 | but others have gone further afield into places like the US and Canada. When you say goodbye to your family and you don't know, you see your family or no. |
0:44.7 | Initially, it was mainly women and children who fled, with the vast majority crossing the |
0:49.3 | border into Poland, uncertain of their future and unsure when, or even if they would ever return home. |
0:57.7 | I'm Daniel Rosni, and on today's Business Daily, I'm going to be looking at the Ukrainians |
1:03.0 | who didn't just resettle, but rebuilt their lives. Setting up businesses in their new countries, |
1:10.0 | I'll find out what sectors have boomed |
1:11.9 | and the challenges that have arisen for others. |
1:14.5 | As the war continues, |
1:16.4 | I'm going to be asking if those displaced |
1:18.6 | will choose to go back |
1:19.9 | if Putin agrees to end the conflict. |
1:26.5 | We're going to begin in London, in the UK. |
1:30.0 | It's an industrial part of the capital. |
1:37.0 | Hello, Valentina. |
1:38.5 | Hi, thank you. |
1:39.4 | Hi. |
1:40.2 | Hello. |
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