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Hello, it's 471 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And as we have been reporting all week, right across the BBC, parts of southern Ukraine

are still in the middle of rescue efforts after the breach of the Kokova Dam, where dozens

of towns, villages, communities in the Hessian region have been flooded.

It's so much for them to endure.

Vick, I don't know what you think, but I've been so struck by some of the images that

have come out of Hassan and the surrounding region over the past few days, elderly people.

The most emotional for me have been seeing these elderly, sometimes elderly women that

are colleagues in the Russian service, talk to this, I think she was 90-year-old woman

whose house had been destroyed.

She was sort of looking lost, and I just remember when I lived in Ukraine, people of that

generation would always say to me, however bad things get, just please let there not

be war, because Ukrainians of that generation, they remember the Second World War and

how deeply, deeply everyone suffered.

And here they are now, people like that in the midst of all of this, and then this deluge

on top of it.

And people who, for understandable reasons, don't want to leave their homes, they've managed

to stay in their homes all this time since February last year.

Probably they should be leaving, they should be allowing themselves to be rescued, but what

a decision to have to make.

And then the people who, in a way thanks to the flooding, have been freed from the occupied

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