Hello and welcome to Battleground Ukraine with Lee Patrick Bisher.

Today we're bringing you another one of our interviews from our time in Ukraine,

this time with British photographer and activist Martin of our interviews from our time in Ukraine, this time

with British photographer and activist Martin Neville, who has lived in Ukraine since 2020 and

they've been providing crucial aid to Ukrainians through his charity Postcode Ukraine.

Now, we know there's been a lot of developments on the diplomatic stage this week with

senior officials from Russia and the United States meeting in Saudi Arabia. And of course earlier, there was the

emergency summit in Paris between key European leaders, before which Sir Kier Stama said he was

prepared to send British troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping horse. So keep an eye out for our full reaction to these dramatic

diplomatic developments coming later this week. But before then, we'll take you to Kiev, where we

stoke to Mark. Hope you enjoy it. So we arrived in Kiev, around about midday today, after a rather

lovely journey across the flatlands, as I described

them, the sort of step of Ukraine on our journey from Kharkiv via Poltava briefly had a look at

and wondered about that battle. I actually did a bit of checking. It was 1709, not 1707, as I said,

as we were passing through the railway junction. But anyway,

lovely journey over. We're now sitting in my hotel room halfway up or three quarters of the way

up, the hotel in Kiev. And we are very delighted to talk to an old friend of the podcast, Mark

Neville, artist and photographer, who came on about 18 months ago, I think it might

have been Mark? I think it was 18 months. Yeah, it was the summer 2020. Could that be?

I think it was the summer of 2023. And you were telling us about your previous project. We're

going to go on to the new one in a minute, but just remind us of that first one, because it

sort of sets the scene

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