A Ukrainian City Marks A Year Of Loss—And Resistance
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
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But an army of citizen spies defied Moscow's expectations, and helped Ukrainian forces liberate the city last November.
A year after Russia launched its invasion, NPR's Joanna Kakissis has the story of Kherson's partisans: teachers and accountants and landscape designers, who became eyes and ears for the Ukrainian military.
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| 0:00.0 | A year ago, people across Ukraine were faced with a choice, one that carried enormous consequences, |
| 0:13.8 | to stay or to go. |
| 0:15.8 | The Russian troops were moving so fast that I was afraid. |
| 0:18.5 | That's Damian, a 16-year-old who in Piar's Laila Fadal met a few days after Russia launched |
| 0:23.7 | its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:25.8 | When he spoke with her last year, he gave only his first name. It was a dangerous, uncertain |
| 0:30.5 | time. |
| 0:31.7 | As troops pushed toward the capital and Russian rockets rained down on Ukrainian cities, |
| 0:37.4 | Damian made the agonizing decision to leave his home in Lviv, and he headed for the Polish |
| 0:42.5 | border. |
| 0:43.5 | I wouldn't like to be kept chugged, told you. |
| 0:46.0 | They would like my freedom to be taken. |
| 0:48.0 | So what would happen to you? |
| 0:50.0 | Yes. |
| 0:50.0 | Many international observers expected the country would quickly fall to Russian forces. |
| 0:54.8 | The roads were packed with cars in the hours after the invasion started. |
| 0:59.5 | Lines formed at gas stations and ATMs. |
| 1:02.6 | We just left everything and we know that we'll have no possibility to get it. |
| 1:10.3 | Another 16-year-old Taecia Omochenko speaking with NPR's Joanna Kakisas last year. |
| 1:15.8 | She and her family abandoned their apartment in Kiev with not much more than the clothes |
| 1:20.0 | on their backs. |
| 1:21.0 | Right now, we really don't know where to go. |
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