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Jul 2025
17m 30s

Returning to Ukraine?

Bbc World Service
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The UN estimates that nearly seven million Ukrainians have left their home country since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Many have set up businesses in their new country - around 90,000 of those in Poland.

We hear about the challenges they’ve faced, and the sectors which have thrived. And we ask; would they return to Ukraine if the war ended?

Produced and presented by Daniel Rosney

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