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Hello, it's 401 days now, since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

And yesterday, Ukraine cast listener Anita Stokes from Tondridge in Kent, here in the

UK, sent us this poem, it's called 400 Days.

400 days of bombs, 400 days of shells, 400 days of fears, 400 days of tears, 400 days

of drones, 400 days of waste, 400 days to scream, enough, this land will not be yours.

400 days to give shelter, 400 days to comfort, 400 days of connection and still hopeful

for a land.

Very poignant.

I think you could hear rain in the background there, which made it even more poignant.

Anita says that she has always had something of a heart for refugees, coming from Ukraine,

really resonating.

Her mother was a Hungarian political prisoner, she says in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.

And her dad was one of the British troops that brought her to the UK as a displaced

person.

Anita says that writing poetry is her way to try and keep the war in people's mind and

a way for her to process her own sense of powerlessness.

And some of Anita's poems appeared in an ontology called United for Ukraine.

This is Ukraine cast.

Ukraine cast from the Muslims.

Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain.

Millions of people are without heating, without water.

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