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Hello, it's 429 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

You are hearing as you've probably worked out the sounds of the rescue operations

across Ukrainian cities as firefighters and medics try to drag people from the wreckage of

Russian missile attacks. As we are recording this episode at lunchtime in London the number of

dead stands at 18 and it may rise, they include a three-year-old child and a mother killed in one

of a series of missiles that hits apartment blocks in the central town of Uman.

And it feels like a kind of a jarring shock because for 51 days, Ukrainian civilians broadly

speaking by and large have been spared this kind of horrific attack on the places where they

sleep and cook and eat and work and go about their daily lives.

And the Russian Defence Minister this morning posted on its telegram page a picture of a

missile being fired with a caption right on target. What exactly the target was remains unclear

as the Russian government insists it's not targeting civilians.

This is Ukraine's cast.

Ukraine calls us from business. 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 fled. I do not know how we managed to survive.

Hello, this is Victoria at home. This is Vitaly in the Ukraine cast you do in London.

And we're going to talk to our Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse who's actually just

crossed the border from Ukraine into eastern Poland. James obviously we're going to talk about this

first major attack on Ukraine in more than a month. What does that tell us? What do we read

into that? Well it's hard to work out Victoria just what the Russian name was here other than

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