as ukraine s war enters its third year, there is still no end in sight. both ukraine and russia have suffered heavy losses. neither country discloses the full scale of casualties. but ukraine has released some details of the many injured peope, including more than a thousand who ve been blinded on the battlefield, half of whom have also lost most of their hearing. many are being helped to readjust to their new lives by ukraine s many volunteers. translation: i can t say i love to talk about the war. i don t like to get into these details. but of course, it has affected me, my family, and all people i love. we met in a local cafe. on the 14th of february, we went on our first date. we had to separate because vlad went to the front line. we couldn t see each other for half a year, but we were always in touch online, texted each other. translation: i went to the front line as a volunteer, 100 force batallion, defence of bakhmut city. from the beginning till then, we were doi
and the global news podcast. it is two years since russia began its full scale invasion of ukraine, triggering the bloodiest conflict in europe since the second world war. but after 730 days of fighting, who has the upper hand? what is life like in ukraine and russia today, and when will the killing end? the global news podcast and ukrainecast have come together to answer your questions. hello, i m oliver conway from the global news podcast. i m vitaly shevchenko, the co presenter from ukrainecast in the ukrainecast studio. i m olga robinson from bbc verify, also in the ukrainecast studio. i m lyse doucet, the bbc s chief international- correspondent and i m back. in the ukrainian capital, kyiv. and i m steven rosenberg, the bbc s russia editor and i m in moscow. thank you all forjoining us. we have had lots of questions from listeners to the global podcast, and ukrainecast. thank you all. we will try to answer as many as we can. hello, i m derek from london in the uk. is the
hello, i m lauren taylor. a defiant president zelensky has insisted ukraine will win the war as the country marks the second anniversary of russia s full scale invasion. several western leaders, including the eu commission president ursula von der leyen, are in kyiv in a show of solidarity with ukraine. mrs von der layen praised the extraordinary resistance of the ukrainian people, and reaffirmed the eu s full support. president zelensky again stressed his country s need of more weapons. former uk prime minister boris johnson is also in kyiv. in a post on x, mrjohnson said he had no doubt that the ukrainians will win and expel putin s forces provided the uk gives ukraine the military, political and economic help they need. there ve been further russian attacks on ukrainian cities. for a second night running, targets in the port city of odesa have been hit, killing one person. three others were seriously injured. this is the live scene in kyiv on the morning of the secon
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its first serious blow over the brexit bill which will trigger the process of leaving the eu. the upper chamber voted by a large majority to give european union nationals who already live here the right to stay in the uk. the prime minister has so far refused to give any such assurances. our political editor, laura kuennsberg, reports. they have voted, contents 358. wow. not contents 256. so the contents have it. wow! you can hear them say. the lords beat the government by more than 100 votes. a bid to force ministers to say people from other eu countries can stay here, and to say so now. it seems to me a win win for principle, humanity, decency and honour. and i hope the house of commons will now follow the example of the lords and make sure that it confirms this improvement to what was otherwise a pretty dire set of legislation. it s very arrogant to assume that your argument is the only one of principle and yours is the only moral one. once people start using words like