Ukraine

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I think like many Ukrainians I discovered dimensions of myself, I didn't even know I had resilience. There's one word to use as a nation. We proved to the world and to ourselves first of all that we are more than strong. And now it's a year later impossible to cover the whole year. But just give us a sense of what happened to you both as a person and as a politician over the course of the last year.

It’s been a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine MP Lesia Vasylenko describes waking up in a war zone that day and she argues that Russian war crimes must not be allowed to go unpunished.

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