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Well, it was three years ago, three long years ago, that Russia invaded without provocation,

its neighbour Ukraine. In the intervening years, we've seen all sorts of horrors.

We've also seen the magnificent spirit of the Ukrainian people,

and we've seen the way that the war has upended the old global diplomatic order with even as we

speak, shocking events, shocking changes to the geopolitical landscape happening virtually every day,

sometimes twice a day. Before we go on, what are your memories sort of? Can you remember where

you were and what you thought when you first saw those images of the Russians

pouring over the border into Ukraine? We'd been led to believe it was going to happen, hadn't

we, Patrick, a lot of intelligence reports coming out from the West that the invasion was on the

cars. But until it actually happened, waking up that morning, I usually get up sort of about

6.6.6.30 and already the invasion was

underway. Ukraine is a couple of hours ahead, so it had probably been going on, I think,

since the early hours of that morning. And it was utterly shocking because I think there was

almost an inevitability that the Russians, with the weight of force that they put into that

attack, were actually going to

take over the country in as little as the two or three days that Putin had been told by

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