The latest from Kyiv and Kharkiv - a podcast by BBC World Service

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We hear the latest on the ground from the BBC's Lyse Doucet in Kyiv and Sarah Rainsford in Kharkiv. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, says that a million people have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began - almost all of them women and children. More than half have travelled west into to Poland - where communities have been opening up their homes, hoping to provide sanctuary amidst the chaos. Olivia Lace-Evans reports from Warsaw. Businesses in America that have anything to do with Russia are facing something of a public backlash as the war intensifies. Kirstin Schwab of Marketplace on American Public Media reports from New York. Chris Low of FHN Financial explains how Wall Street has reacted as the Ukraine and Russia enter a second week of war.

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