This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

As we celebrate the holidays here at Pantsuit Politics, we decided to take a different

approach to our year-in retrospective.

Instead of featuring an entire episode, we wanted to highlight our conversations throughout

the year about some of the biggest stories of 2022.

Of course, one story stood out among the rest.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and February of this year has dominated the headlines and

featured prominently in our conversations here at Pantsuit Politics.

With a story as important as this one, we thought looking back on how we have felt

at different points in the conflict was important and we hope you find it helpful as well.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th.

We released an episode the next day that included this conversation.

The first thing to understand is that Ukraine is under strike.

From land, from air, by sea, Russian troops are coming into the country from Belarus

and the North, Russia in the east, and Crimea in the south.

I thought this was a really helpful perspective from the dispatch they wrote on the ground

in Ukrainian cities thus far, the situation might best be summed up with one word, lines.

Lines to get cash out of the ATM.

Lines to pick up prescriptions at the pharmacy.

Lines to fill up at the gas station.

Thousands upon thousands of cars were seen stuck in traffic Thursday morning attempting

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