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Radio 4,23 Feb 2023,28 mins

Ukraine: One Year On

From Our Own Correspondent

Available for over a year

Orla Guerin, Senior International Correspondent, reports from Ukraine's east, a region she has covered on different trips during the last year. She describes the permanent sense of danger that has become a way of life since the Russian invasion. Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, recounts his own feelings of surprise at Vladimir Putin's decision to invade - and how far everyday Russians have swallowed the government propaganda. He explores the motivations as to why this might be. US Editor, Sarah Smith describes the secrecy surrounding President Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kyiv - and what the political climate is like in Washington amid pledges the US will support the war for 'as long as it takes'. Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe Correspondent, has followed the story of Ukrainians fleeing the war from the outset of the invasion. She speaks to those who have only recently fled in Poland's east and what prompted their decisions to leave now. Vitaliy Shevchenko, presenter of Ukrainecast, has lost friends during the conflict. Over the last year, he evacuated his parents from Zaporizhzhia, a region now partially- controlled by Russians, and also watched a broader shift in Ukraine's standing in the world - and that of its leader.

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