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🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | On the 24th of February, 2022, I woke up in Nizhny Novgorod, where I was born. |
0:11.0 | Jana had arrived the night before. |
0:13.2 | She was still allowed back into Russia, but it was dangerous for her. |
0:16.7 | Since she left in 2015, Putin had become more and more hostile to critical voices like hers. |
0:22.1 | But she took the risk because she wanted to see her grandma, Boris Nemtsov's mother, who was in her mid-90s. |
0:28.4 | Well, I woke up and I got a call very early in the morning at 6 a.m. from my husband, who said, |
0:35.7 | fly away right now. |
0:38.9 | Russia is at war with Ukraine. |
0:43.3 | All right, our top story today. |
0:44.9 | Russia has launched its invasion of Ukraine, attacking from three sides. |
0:49.0 | Vladimir Putin has just addressed the Russian people moment ago, |
0:52.6 | announcing what Putin called the start of a military special operation. |
0:59.9 | I was shocked, of course. |
1:02.0 | It was a scary moment, and was it difficult to buy a ticket? |
1:06.2 | Because some Russians wanted to escape. |
1:10.2 | They wanted to flee Russia immediately. |
1:13.5 | Were people, like at the airport, were people talking about the war, or did people not want to... |
1:18.1 | It was silence. |
1:19.9 | Silence. |
1:20.7 | Total silence. |
1:22.4 | And I can't feel this nerve. |
1:25.1 | I was sitting in a row together with other two people and they read the news |
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