Since the start of russia's brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I've been trying to amplify Ukrainian voices by doing regular Instagram Lives with Ukrainian teachers. I've decided to start collecting them all here in one YouTube playlist and will be adding to them as I go along.

This Live is with Olena Berdichenko from Kharkiv. Among other things, we talked about the shock of realising friends over the border have become strangers you no longer understand, the relative status of different languages inside Ukraine, the 2004 Orange Revolution and hopes for the future

Thanks to Olena for giving up her time again and thanks to everyone who watches this.

Hope it helps Ukrainians feel heard and those outside Ukraine understand better those on the inside.

Slava Ukraini

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