On the Road With Ukraine’s Refugees: An Update

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. This episode contains strong language. This year, in response to Russia’s increasingly brutal campaign against Ukrainian towns and cities, millions of people — most of them women and children — fled Ukraine. It was the fastest displacement of people in Europe since World War II. Today, we return to the beginning of the invasion and reporting from our host Sabrina Tavernise, who traveled alongside some of those fleeing the conflict.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Sabrina.
0:02.6	This week, the daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year, and hearing
0:07.0	what's happened in the time since they first ran.
0:09.5	Today, we return to the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the long and harrowing
0:14.7	journey that many Ukrainians found themselves on as they fled their homeland for safety.
0:19.4	It's Monday, December 26.
0:22.9	I'm leaving the hotel room.
0:31.1	What time is it, Valerie?
0:33.1	4.10.
0:35.1	It's 4.10 pm on Tuesday, and we're leaving the hotel room in Kiev, walking through a
0:41.4	very dark hallway to an elevator that will bring us down to the car, where we will drive
0:48.4	south and west.
0:51.7	Last Tuesday, the New York Times made the decision to pull a group of reporters out of Kiev
0:57.2	and bring them to a city in western Ukraine that was safer, called Levive.
1:03.0	I was one of those reporters, and so was my colleague Valerie Hopkins.
1:09.8	The drive was supposed to take seven hours.
1:13.5	Instead, it took us two days and two nights.
1:17.7	And just as we closed the trunk in the parking lot of the hotel, we heard this huge bang,
1:23.1	and then another.
1:24.1	We just heard some artillery unclear if it's incoming or outgoing.
1:28.3	We got into the car and drove out, and some ambulances driving by.
1:34.3	Later we would discover that those two booms were Russian military trying to blow up the
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