On the Road With Ukraine’s Refugees

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. In response to Russia’s increasingly brutal campaign against Ukrainian towns and cities, an estimated 1.5 million people — most of them women and children — have fled Ukraine over the past 10 days. It’s the fastest displacement of people in Europe since World War II. While evacuating the capital city of Kyiv for Lviv in the west, a seven-hour journey that took two days and nights, the Daily host Sabrina Tavernise traveled alongside some of those fleeing the conflict.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:04.4	This is a daily.
0:09.4	In response to Russia's increasingly brutal campaign against Ukrainian towns and cities,
0:15.9	an estimated 1.5 million people, most of them women and children, have fled Ukraine over
0:23.6	the past 10 days.
0:25.6	The fastest displacement of people in Europe since World War II.
0:33.2	Today, Sabrina Tevernisi traveled alongside them as they made their escape.
0:43.4	It's Monday, March 7.
1:02.5	We're leaving the hotel room.
1:04.8	What time is it, Valerie?
1:05.8	4.10 pm on Tuesday.
1:12.3	We're leaving the hotel room in Kiev, walking through a very dark hallway to an elevator
1:17.7	that will bring us down to the car where we will drive south and west.
1:25.4	Last Tuesday, the New York Times made the decision to pull a group of reporters out of Kiev
1:30.9	and bring them to a city in western Ukraine that was safer, called Leviv.
1:36.8	I was one of those reporters, and so was my colleague Valerie Hopkins.
1:41.3	The drive was supposed to take 7 hours.
1:47.2	Instead, it took us 2 days and 2 nights.
1:51.5	And just as we closed the trunk in the parking lot of the hotel, we heard this huge bang
1:56.7	and then another.
1:57.7	We just heard some artillery unclear if it's incoming or outgoing.
2:02.0	We got into the car and drove out and some ambulances driving by.
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