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Worse, two friends traveled from cornwall to the ukraine-polish border who help translate for those affected. charlotte hobson and gavin knight are russian-speaking translators helping ukrainian refugees arrive in poland. very pleased to say that gavin and charlotte join us on the program. guys, lovely to have you on and what a fantastic story. charlotte, you're closer to me on the screen so i will come to you first. what on earth gave you the idea for this one? >> well, i've been working with russia and russian culture for -- you know, my whole life now so obviously when the war started i jus...

The war. we have to stop the war. we have to stop the killing of people, children. right now, by the way, 19 people right now in hospital, four from this attack, four of them are children, one people die. >> what is your message to putin? >> he is unhealthy. it's not reason to talk to him. he do it -- to do it like that is, is my hometown, is my home country, he is not a healthy man. he is unhealthy. there is no reason to talk to him. he is unhealthy. he's huge danger not for ukraine, he is huge danger for the whole world. >> do you think there is any space for negotiations? can you negotiate ...

We have this information war which is raging much -- much -- on a much greater scale than the battle -- than on the battlefield and i will not be surprised at anything because who wins the information war? the one who wins the war. >> well, i also spoke to the armed forces minister james heappey who certainly didn't hold back on his response after the ambassador's denial of any russian involvement. >> i don't know how the russian ambassador sleeps at night because, you know, he sits there -- he stands there and says that to your correspondent and it is clear as day what's happening in mariupol...

The area was wailing around and warning people to find shelter a lot of people ignored t got on with what they had to do, some people have done an enormous amount of preparation should this war reach odesa. we went down in a subway and spoke to a family that had been evacuated from mykolalv. there's sort of two schools of thought, one is that the threat is on the horizon, we know that there are russian navy war ships out there in the black sea, they are part of a plan no doubt to take this city, but there is some intelligence coming from the uk as well to suggest that there isn't any evidence ...

Ambassador sleeps at night. more on that in just a moment. it is friday the 18th of march. a series of missiles strike the western ukrainian city of lviv. the mayor there says an aircraft maintenance plant has been destroyed. fake news? russia's ambassador to the u.n. tells sky vladimir putin's forces did not bomb a ukrainian theater where civilians were sheltering. >> we have this information war which is raging much, much -- on a much greater scale than the -- than the battle -- than ott battlefield and i will not be surprised at anything because who wins the information war, the one win...