The

The So we're now in the northern outskirts of Kharkiv, and a pretty rough.

I mean they say it's up and coming, but it doesn't look like that to me, Patrick.

I mean, we've got a huge kind of Soviet era apartment block directly behind us. But I imagine if you're

at the top of the building, it would have a rather wonderful view because we're looking directly

north as we face out from the building. And that is the direction of the Russian border.

We reckon about 20 miles away. and this was the direction the Russians of course were coming

both in the initial invasion in 2022 and also more recently in spring of last year when they

relaunched an attack into Kharkiv which is what we were talking to the Cartier Brigade about yesterday.

Patrick, what's your kind of feeling of this place and what it evokes about this part of Ukraine

in the midst of war?

That was a bit of a gang, actually, about a big an up and coming here.

Yeah, it's not, I certainly know where I've choose to live if I was going to base myself in

in Kharkiv and it's very redolent isn't it at the old Soviet era

blocks pretty shabby or babushka type ladies swaddled against the cold coming back from the shops laden with their groceries.

And even though the day started off nice and sunny, but this is like the depths of a Ukrainian

winter. You can feel the chill getting into your bones. So it's very wintry scene here.

But where we are, we're actually on some quite high ground and

looking north we're not very far away from the Russian border which is only what 20 miles away of

that and if there's any fighting going on we'll probably hear it now because the wind's blowing

from the east but so far nothing in fact there's been pretty quiet

since we've been in khaki we've heard a bit of outgoing what seemed to be to be outgoing

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