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I'm in Warsaw Airport, party, after driving across the border from Ukraine from Lviv this morning. We started in Lviv at

about 4 a.m. this morning having stayed there like last night and I was in cave yesterday.

So I'm in Warsaw shortly to get on the plane back to London for this show tomorrow.

Well I mean I've got so much to ask about the interview that you've carried out but also just

the conditions there I mean how that so I guess it's completely it's blanketed with snow. It's really

snowy but it's quite slushy in the cities but we've sort of drove for hours and

hours through very flat frozen lands but there were also some lovely pretty sort of forests you know when you get

like frozen lovely trees that looked all twinkly and gorgeous but also the

reality you know quite often you pass Army trucks parked up and you see the slush

and the ice and the grit and the cold.

And what just kept coming into my head was imagine having to fight in those kinds of circumstances and even

when you're crossing checkpoints and it didn't seem to me that there were that many checkpoints

now we were in key in and around Kieve in that kind of area and there's certainly fewer checkpoints

than there were the last time I was there but soldiers standing for hours on end in

the freezing cold and it's just a really really tough place to be right now even though you know in the

news we haven't been talking about Ukraine that much recently.

That is exactly the point. Well we're really glad you've done this work.

We'll hear from Elena Zelenska on this episode of Newscast.

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