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Hello, it's 442 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Mr. Gabriel

Gatehouse is back with us.

Vick, can I just tell you a story?

Of course.

So I've got a very old Russian friend of mine who is a journalist to move over here when

the war started, you know, for obvious reasons, he might end up in jail, and he's got

three kids with him who'd be outrooted.

You told us about him.

Yeah, I've told you about him before.

Right, so his middle child is 11 years old, she's going to school in London, it's a huge

adjustment for her, she's Russian, she's found a school, I saw him the other day, I said,

how's she doing, and he said, yes, she's found a friend, she's got a best friend, she's

Ukrainian.

Wow.

Her best friend is Ukrainian, and this Ukrainian family who lived nearby, they're a Russian

speaking Ukrainian family, but after the war, they switched to Ukrainian, a lot of families

bilingual, and you know, they made a decision that's really understandable.

But when my friend's daughter goes around there, she obviously doesn't speak Ukrainian,

the Ukrainian family have moved with mom and dad and the kids and barbushka at the granny,

and she could see that my friend's daughter, 11, was feeling uncomfortable because she

couldn't understand what they were saying, she could kind of half understand, she couldn't

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