As tensions increase over Russia and Ukraine is a full-scale invasion imminent.

I'm Jackie Lennard and in the special edition of the BBC World Service Global News podcast

recorded on Friday the 28th of January, we're putting your questions to some of our experts.

In Moscow, Steve Rosenberg, formerly in Moscow now in Kiev, Sarah Reinsford and here in London,

are international affairs correspondent Paul Adams.

As we record this podcast, around 100,000 Russian troops are in place along Ukraine's border,

taking up positions to the north, south and east. The US President Joe Biden has warned

there is a distinct possibility that Russia might invade in February and Russia says it sees

little ground for optimism in resolving the crisis after the US rejected Russia's main demand.

It wants a guarantee that neither Ukraine nor Georgia should be allowed to join NATO.

That's the international group of 30 countries who have agreed to support each other

politically and militarily if they are attacked. Moscow also wants a withdrawal of any NATO presence

from Eastern Europe. In this podcast, we'll be putting your questions to our expert correspondence

about how we got here, what Russia wants from this situation, the broad of view of world reaction

and world alliances and what might happen next. Before any of that, though, let's hear a little bit

from some of the people in Ukraine who are currently living with this hanging over them.

Finally, some drills have started, so our kids know what to do in case of war.

Of course, it makes no sense for a great war with Ukraine. But Mr Putin, I'm afraid he's

delirious, he's far from watching. For me, it's not surprising to see that a lot of people,

women and men will be ready to protect Ukraine in the case it would be necessary.

I want to be prepared to any scenario. So I know that probability of a hard war is not that high,

but it still might happen. So if it happens, I'm already prepared. I'm asking my parents if they

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