commotion this is hard to believe in the europe of 2022. people arejust crushing all around me, trying to get onto these trains. a woman — a young mother with a baby there screaming because everyone�*s getting crushed. shouting she has to get on with her baby. women and children. back then, they struggled to reach the trains on platform 5 of lviv station. the memories are flooding back of all of those people, thousands, and nobody that we met had any idea what was ahead of them — it was just a question of getting out. but two years on, the tragedy of those people, of ukraine, is unresolved.

where did they go? what happened to the people we filmed on platform 5? for the last two years, we've been following the stories of those we couldn't forget. jenia and oksana onyschuk were parting for the first time in a marriage of 17 years. men of fighting age weren't allowed to leave. it was a terrible day. it was the worst day in our life. i didn't recognise what was going on. i didn't think about anything. i had just emotions

that he can't leave ukraine. jenia didn't know when he'd see his children, anna and ilya, again. the family escaped from kharkiv in the north—east, close to the russian border. it was among the first cities attacked. explosion jenia's family fled a war that would claim more

than 10,000 civilian lives in two years. he went back to kharkiv. a year on, he was still living with the threat of being conscripted and was missing his family.

3,000km away, 0ksana and the children found refuge in surrey, in south east england. it was a big shock for us to be alone. the most important thing being here is that we are safe now. they go to school, they have after—school clubs. i have a job. here, present simple and here, future simple. 0ksana is teaching english to refugees — among them, her own son. i must be a mother, a father, a teacher. laughs "they get," without s.

it was so hard because i don't know any words at english. it was so challenge for me. i miss for my dad and for my best friend but i like england and i think i will — i will stand here. english people are amazing. they ask us each day, "what can we do for you?" they are worried about us. it's been a year since the family was separated from jenia. phone rings

do you speak english? do you? since they parted on platform 5, these calls have been a lifeline. so, goodbye, my friends. pa ka pa ka! pa ka pa ka. at lviv station, the war�*s beginning was a time of sudden choices. 0n platform 5, we also met a mother who decided to stay. dr natasha ambarova, a mum of two, was helping thousands of refugees.

but we'd learn natasha was doing all of this as the war was bitterly dividing her own family. she's of russian origin with siblings in moscow. by phone, her sister told her...

two years later and there's been no contact from russia.

at the height of the crisis on platform 5, natasha was hearing direct testimony of russian cruelty. some of the worst stories were coming from the besieged city of mariupol. 0n the first train out of there, we met the vyrstyuk family — grandmother mariya, mother liudmyla and daughter yulia.

grandmother mariya fell several times during eight days spent sheltering in a local theatre. at 86, she's fleeing with her family in search of peace. a year later, we found the family living in ukraine's peaceful carpathian mountains and there, they revealed the full extent of their ordeal.

the theatre was hit by a russian air strike with multiple casualties. each day brings traumatic news across ukraine. trumpeter plays the last post in lviv recently, the funeral of yaroslav mykolaiv, killed on the front line. yaroslav, a father of two, is one of 380,000 ukrainian soldiers killed or wounded. screams

yells as we filmed, a veteran erupted in rage. "death to the enemy," he shouts. trauma is everywhere now. after two years of war, dr natasha ambarova worries about the effects on her children. pew! pew, pew, pew! 18 months afterfleeing ukraine, 0ksana, ilya and anna

are packing for a specialjourney.

it's a long journey but when i meet my dear husband, i will say to him, "my dear husband, i missed you very much!" so, we are so happy to go to ukraine. yeah, i'm so excited to meet my dad and go to maybe fishing, ride bikes and stuff like that. i'll be very sunny and happy. ukraine allows refugees to visit, but only for 28 days. any longer, they have to remain. ukrainian flag. we're in ukraine. 0h, great! where's ukrainian flag? just across the field. you're home. this is your country, your land. yeah. we love our land. and we are proud of it.

and can't wait to seejenia. i'll be energetic all night. i won't sleep. they're going to stay atjenia's new home in dnipro — a safer city than kharkiv, though it still suffers attacks. oi, oi, oi! what no words can say, touch and sigh convey.

it's peaceful — now — but russian missiles can strike any time. it will be hard to go back to england and break up with my dad again. yeah, i think it will be difficult. but we need to be strong and believe that ukraine will win the war. as the second anniversary of the war looms, doctor and mother natasha ambarova is teaching medicine.

but, furious against russia, she's now ready to pick up a gun. you're a doctor. you save lives. but part of you wants to kill. mm—hm. wow. it's my war, yeah.

with the war in stalemate, there's no more belief in imminent victory. and in the carpathian mountains, liudmyla is struggling.

liudmyla's daughter yulia left for poland. shouting two years after the world was shocked by the scenes on platform 5, millions of ukrainians are still living abroad. 0ksana is back in england, and worrying. ukraine desperately needs more troops. it's pure luckjenia hasn't already been drafted, but that can easily change. i don't want him to go to the war because he's so kind for everything. he can't even damage

even a small insect. so, i can't imagine my husband in the war. he can't — he just can't do it. it's very difficult to be separated but we have two children and we have to think about them first of all. we love each other. withjenia, we try to be honest and to value each other. i think our love is amazing. the story of platform 5 is about courage and love but it's also a story of loneliness and loss. mariya grinchenkova died in exile last year. she was buried far from her husband and mariupol,

the city she loved. the war takes and keeps taking, and the end seems very far away. hello there.

wet for many of us, particularly across parts of east anglia, where some spots saw as much as three times the average february rainfall. the shard crowded in rain. brighter across northern areas. strong wind blowing and bringing large waves. a cold start to the date for the northern half of the uk with patches of frost around and into that cold air, an area of low pressure. the occlusion brings with it the rest of hill snow. snowfall in the hills across the high ground in northern ireland the pennines and northern wales as well. it will vary from place to place from very much at all to around five centimetres or more. meanwhile, at lower elevations, where the vast majority of us lived,

rain and a few songs mixed in. temperatures around eight or nine degrees with showers for wales, the midlands in southern england. friday night, low pressure stays with us. another cold one with frost developing in rural areas to take us into the start of the weekend, we can that will continue to be dominated by the same area of low pressure. however, at least the low pressure. however, at least the low pressure will be weakening over the top of the uk by the time we get to sunday. saturday is a day of sunshine and showers. showers will pretty widespread. some of the showers could have hailed mixed in. cold enough for snow over the tops of the mountains in scotland and northern england but not causing any impact. temperatures below average for the time of year. the second

half of the weekend is a little bit cheerier. the area of low pressure is still with us and continued to bring showers especially to parts of scotland, northern ireland and the north—west of both england and wales. furthersouth north—west of both england and wales. further south showers are few and far between and a few more brighter spells. lifting temperatures by an odd degree. still a little bit below average for the time of year. monday, low pressure moving on from there atlantic bringing in whether in low cloud. across scotland and eastern areas of england, it stays dry and bright. beyond that, something of a battle zone across the uk. areas of low pressure across the atlantic. eastern areas closer to an area of high pressure. across western parts,

cloud and rain at times. showery weather conditions. but the driest of the weather, the brightest of the weather will be across eastern areas of scotland and england. slightly milder in london. bye for now.

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