This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Friday, the 24th of February, these are our main stories.

It is exactly one year on since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.

On the eve of the anniversary, the United Nations has voted overwhelmingly to demand that Moscow

immediately and unconditionally withdraw its troops.

In other news, staff at the European Commission have been told to remove the Chinese-owned

app TikTok from all official devices because of security concerns.

Exactly one year ago today, on the 24th of February 2022, Russia launched what it called its

special military operation in Ukraine. Here's a montage of some BBC archive at the time.

Missiles hit the capital of Ukraine as Russian troops advanced from the north,

the south and the east of the country. Despite all the warnings, the news this morning

scarcely seemed credible. Russia had invaded a European country.

I think it was around 5am. I got woken up by an incredibly loud explosion,

and that was followed by a series of more explosions throughout the morning.

I was incredibly panicked. Immediately I started receiving a lot of messages from my friends

of pictures of their city's burning. There were sirens going off. I saw the skylight up a few times,

kind of with fire and smoke.

Thousands of lives on both sides have been lost since then. A correspondent Clive Myrie has

been to Izhum in the east of the country to follow the accounts of a Russian soldier

and the diary of a Ukrainian woman who were experiencing the invasion at the same time.

Throughout the conflict, Russian soldiers have been calling home and the Ukrainian military

has been listening in. Ordinary Ukrainians have been keeping daily war diaries. Here's Clive's

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