Four Million Ukrainians in Limbo

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine, 10 million Ukrainians — about a quarter of the population — have been displaced, and about four million have fled the country. Iryna Baramidze is one of them. From a middle-class neighborhood of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, she has been married to her husband for 12 years and has an 11 year-old son, Yuri. Over three weeks, our producer Clare Toeniskoetter followed Iryna as she made an impossible choice.

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0:00.0	Can I paint your car or cash?
0:04.0	I learned to use it there.
0:06.0	Cash is better.
0:07.0	Okay.
0:08.0	A moment.
0:09.0	A moment.
0:10.0	Oh, not?
0:11.0	I'm coming out.
0:12.0	A moment.
0:13.0	It's a good.
0:14.0	Thank you very much.
0:16.0	I like it back and forth.
0:19.0	Go out.
0:21.0	I just survived at the border.
0:29.0	As soon as my taxi pulled up, people were trying to hire the taxi.
0:33.0	And a family got in, a grandma, a mom, and her two kids.
0:39.0	One was maybe eight or nine, and then a very little baby that she was carrying in her arms.
0:47.0	They loaded a stroller into the trunk and drove off.
0:52.0	And I'm just off the main road, and there's just a huge crowd.
0:59.0	So many women and children.
1:05.0	From the New York Times, this is the daily.
1:09.0	I'm Claire Tennis-Getter.
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