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It's 646 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

For the next 30 minutes, we're going to be talking about how we, the BBC, have been reporting

about this war, and especially, and particularly, how can we tell what's true, what's not true,

and for that, we're going to turn to BBC Monitoring and BBC Verify.

Joining me on this podcast are two brilliant journalists who are both part of the Ukraine

cast family, and the three of us at one point or another, we worked for the mighty Russian

team at BBC Monitoring.

First, Olga Robinson, who is an assistant editor at BBC Monitoring and BBC Verify, and

you specialise in Russian disinformation, hi, Olga.

Hello, lovely to be here.

And we're also joined by Frances Skar, who is a journalist at BBC Monitoring and who

describes his job on X, formerly known as Twitter, as watching Russian TV so that you don't

have to.

Hello, Frances.

Hi there, Vitaly.

So welcome to Ukrainecast.

Olga, how do you describe your job?

Do you have a snappy way of describing it, as Frances does?

I was just thinking, you know, disinformation queen, but then I was like, no, it's too cheesy.

So I'll probably say, I debunk disinformation and fake, so that you don't have to.

This is Ukrainecast.

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