 The National Lottery has been uniting people through music and other cultural projects for years. And that's why I was delighted the National Lottery asked me to sing with the Refugee Choir, to show solidarity and pay tribute to Ukraine and hundreds of refugees from all over the world that the choir supports. Why did you originally decide to flee your country? Yeah, there was a war and the circumstances were so that we decided to leave our country for some period. Did you feel like you were in real danger? Yeah, because the first days, the first rockets went to our city. I was really frightened and my first reaction was to run. How did the children, you know, with this brand new place, brand new homeland, have they been coping and stuff? They're quite okay. It could be much more worse. I miss my dad and Ukraine. Oh, I bet you do. How did you find out about the good causes choir? So our social worker, she's a really nice lady. She told us there was going to be a choir. And then when she said it's going to be about Eurovision, we were like, yes, we want to be part of it. So you two, are you big Eurovision fans? Yeah. Oh, right. Are you looking forward to it? Obviously, because it's coming to Liverpool. Yeah. It's going to be fantastic, isn't it? Personally, I've never done singing. This was like the first time in my life to actually do singing and I loved it. I knew who will be organisators and you who will be our conductor. He's absolutely great person. Yeah, fantastic. And I knew that it will be absolutely pleasure. Well, of course, you are a vocal coach anyway, aren't you? And it was amazing. Your voice was great. To hear it from a musician, from a singer with such experience. Yeah, thank you. And I thought it was lovely as well, the way you all sang in Ukrainian, which was absolutely fantastic. And it was really, really well, didn't it? In Liverpool alone, more than 330 million has been awarded to music and cultural projects over the years. Without their funding, this choir wouldn't be. We've had a great day here today all singing together.