apricots of donbas today in the program perspective ukrainian poet screenwriter and journalist lyubov yakymchuk , whose work has been awarded several times thank you very much for joining us this morning luba before we move on to your collection of poems if you don't mind tell us about the beginning of the russian invasion it will be in kyiv on that day war i was in kyiv during the revolution of dignity what was the situation there even then i understood that it was probably the last time i see everything like this my parents my parents did not want to leave their home but they had to do it and they fled in 2014 in fact after almost a year of being in the occupation year and was of course it was terrible our house was occupied by soldiers house of russian soldiers live and they still live there it is a very strange and terrible feeling sister we understand that the conflict especially affected your family before us is your poetry collection it is available in ukrainian and also translated into french and english here is a french copy the leading theme of your poetry is language and how it is af