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I'm Krasi Twig from the Global Jigsaw podcast
on the BBC World Service where we are asking how Russia is transforming occupied Eastern Ukraine.
The status of the self proclaimed Donetsk
and Luhansk people's republics is far less clear cut than it seems
and independent reporting from there,
extremely difficult.
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It's 1101 days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine.
I'm Lyse Doucet.
And I'm Vitaly Shevchenko.
Vitaly.
I think I speak for both of us.
I speak for many around the world, most of all for Ukrainians who are now saying what has happened.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has just sat down with President Trump at the White House.
It's a setting that is now familiar to everyone around the world.
The place where you have a little fireside chat.
Under President Trump, it's turned into a press conference with journalists shouting questions.