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It's 905 days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine and we are now into our 11th day of Ukraine's incursion into Russia.
And Vitaly, as you and Jamie came off air on Tuesday, the production team received a voice note from this woman in Kursk.
I guess you can never be really ready for the war coming to your home city.
This is just not the thing you can be prepared for.
It's such a shock.
But on the other side, it has never been unexpected for me because I have a lot of Ukrainian friends and every time I've heard from them for this two and a half years, I've been thinking, what if this was my home city, Kursk?
And yeah, now it is two and a half years later.
So on this point of view, this was not unexpected.
I knew this would come back to us as a boomerang.
We're going to hear more from this woman who we've been in touch with over the last few days, hearing her reflections on Ukraine's cross border offensive into Russia and and to protect her, we're calling her Zhenia in today's episode.
It's been a hugely significant week in the conflict.
Thank you to all of you who have listened to UkraineCast, including those of you who have joined us for the very first time.
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Many of you have also been in touch with your questions.
We're going to try and answer some of those today in the pod.
This is UkraineCast.