Along The Russian Border, Some Ukrainians Already Live With War

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

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Summary

The world is watching as Russia continues it's threat of invasion with troops at the border of Ukraine. But close to that border, in the Donbas region, people look at you a little funny if you ask whether they're worried about war with Russia, because they are already living through it.

Areas of Eastern Ukraine have been at war since 2014 when Russia-backed separatists moved in and declared breakaway republics. And that's where NPR's Mary Louise Kelly has been, talking with residents about what this new threat might mean for them.

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0:00.0	A six-hour train journey east from Kiev, Ukraine will take you to a part of the country
0:05.2	where conflict with Russia is not some future threat.
0:09.4	It's daily life.
0:10.6	Passing bus stops painted blue and yellow, blue and yellow stripes painted around the
0:15.6	lamp posts here.
0:17.1	This blue and yellow is the colors of a Ukrainian flag and the clear message painted after
0:22.8	2014.
0:23.8	This is Ukraine.
0:25.7	This is not Russia.
0:27.0	My co-host Mary Louise Kelly was just in the Donbass region of Ukraine where Russian
0:31.2	back separatists have been fighting Ukraine's forces since 2014.
0:36.4	And where a pedestrian bridge is now the only link between occupied territory and the
0:41.0	rest of the country.
0:42.7	My name is Natalia.
0:43.7	Natalia, hi.
0:44.7	This is your baby?
0:46.7	Natalia had just crossed over from Luhansk, the biggest city in the northernmost part
0:51.8	of the Russian occupied territories.
0:53.8	We're using only first names now for safety reasons.
0:57.4	Mary Louise asked her what life is like there now with the talk of more war on the
1:01.5	horizon.
1:02.5	Yes, people are scared, but nothing changed.
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