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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, May 23rd. I'm Naila Buddha.

Today, what waning home-builder confidence tells us about the housing market.

Plus, a wild weekend of weather with deadly consequences.

But first, today's one big thing. How the worn Ukraine is breaking families.

The shell landed on the next street from them, and more than 17 people died and much more were injured.

When the soldier suffers and dies, it is sad, but it is a part of his job.

When it happens to a civilian, that's insane.

Those are the voices of a soldier and a journalist who've been at the heart of the conflict

between Ukraine and Russia.

Ukrainian corporal, Andrew Shadran, and news producer,

Katarina Meleofieva are both based in the Donbass, a region that's been partially controlled

by pro-Russian separatists since 2014.

Axios's Dave Lawler reports for the latest episode of how it happened, Putin's Invasion,

that the battle for the Donbass is critical to the outcome of this war,

and in the meantime, Andrew and Katarina's families are being torn apart.

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