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An event historic in its significance took place in Ennis yesterday as a commemoration to mark 1,000 days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine was held at the 1916 Rising Memorial on Club Bridge. The event was attended by Ukrainian refugees from various different embattled areas of the country and now different areas of County Clare, who expressed their hopes for the future and told of the horrors they faced before arriving here. Clare FM’s Daragh Dolan was in attendance at the event, where he spoke to Milona Lori, who fled Kyiv; Anna Polovyk from Mykolaiv, who’s hoping to use her qualification as a doctor here; Katarena Raikova from Kharkiv, who’s now living and working in Lisdoonvarna; and the Ukrainian woman whose grandchild was born in a bomb shelter. The event also featured a rare extended edition of Amhrán Na Bhfiann, an anti-war anthem from Metallica, and firstly the English version of Ukraine's national anthem. Photo (c): Clare FM