• Getting Your House in Order, Ukraine

    Getting Your House in Order, Ukraine

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    Living in a village close to one of the most violent flashpoints in Ukraine requires getting your house in order.

  • A Kindergarten Choir, Ukraine

    A Kindergarten Choir, Ukraine

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    A visit to a village kindergarten to deliver aid included a performance by the kids of a traditional song that has become the de facto anthem of Ukrainian resilience

  • ‘Ukrainian Yoghurt. Enriched With Courage’

    ‘Ukrainian Yoghurt. Enriched With Courage’

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    Putin refuses to accept that Ukraine is a sovereign nation independent from Russia. However his unprovoked and unjustifiable war has only strengthened the Ukrainians’ national identity.

  • Podcast Episode 5. Chicken Kyiv, Ukraine

    Podcast Episode 5. Chicken Kyiv, Ukraine

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    A few of my mates asked if I had eaten a Chicken Kyiv in Kyiv. Turns out there is less Kyiv in Chicken Kyiv than I thought. I have a table for two – join me, won’t you?

  • Podcast Episode 2. Evacuation, Ukraine

    Podcast Episode 2. Evacuation, Ukraine

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    Explosions rumbled, boomed and whumped as the Russians shelled the city from their positions just across the river. It was no place for an old lady bed-ridden with a broken leg.

  • Playing Soldiers, Ukraine

    Playing Soldiers, Ukraine

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    When we were kids we played out great World War II battles with our toy guns. Today Ukrainian kids don’t have to imagine there are enemies in their back yards.

  • Shopping During Wartime, Ukraine

    Shopping During Wartime, Ukraine

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    Having their grocery shopping interrupted by air raid sirens is a daily occurrence for many Ukrainians.

  • Counting The Cost, Ukraine

    Counting The Cost, Ukraine

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    A tour of a shattered village revealed the cost of Putin’s war for the rural people of Ukraine.

  • Phaeton Museum of Technology, Ukraine

    Phaeton Museum of Technology, Ukraine

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    Although the war in no way effects me as acutely as it does the Ukrainians, an afternoon at the Phaeton Museum of Technology, Zaporizhia, was a great way to forget about the war for a while.

  • Evacuation, Ukraine

    Evacuation, Ukraine

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    Explosions rumbled, boomed and whumped as the Russians shelled the city from their positions just across the river. It was no place for an old lady bed-ridden with a broken leg.

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