A Year of War in Ukraine

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The war has already done untold damage. By some estimates, tens of thousands have died, and the country has sustained tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage that has left cities flattened. But Ukraine has also largely stopped the offensives of its much larger and better-armed neighbor and has regained some captured land. On the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, these Ukrainians reflect on how the past year of conflict has changed their lives.

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0:00.0	My name is Igor Luzenko.
0:02.8	I am 44.
0:05.1	I am a reconnaissance specialist in Ukrainian army in one of the military bases, not far
0:14.6	from the frontline now.
0:18.0	During the first stage of war in February and March, you just go and meet a lot of people
0:26.5	and you try to talk to everyone to be friends with everyone who you see because you have
0:35.9	an emotional need to speak to someone.
0:41.8	And the operators of the mortars were very nice guys and we became close with them.
0:53.2	And we lost the contact for a couple of weeks and when we tried to ask where the mortar
1:01.2	guys are, I remember the eyes of one of the persons from that unit.
1:08.2	We didn't talk a shatter, we just looked at each other and we understood that we know
1:17.0	our friends died.
1:21.4	We don't have to use some words, we just shared the same grief just with the side with
1:30.0	each other.
1:38.2	Then I decided that the time when you are trying to be friends with everyone who you see
1:47.7	in your position is just better not to know much about them.
1:54.7	Now I have a rule not to be so close friends with people on war because if you lose your
2:04.9	close friends it's much more pity than if you lose your war mates.
2:20.4	So it's kind of a way to protect yourself from more grief than you already have.
2:30.7	From the New York Times I'm Sabrina Tavernice and this is the Daily.
2:36.6	For much of the past year the war in Ukraine was mostly defined by Ukrainian success.
2:42.0	In battle after battle Ukraine had unexpectedly and improbably kept winning.
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