Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Friday, February 24th. I'm Nailibutu. Here's

what we're covering. New data on the public health threats that Democrats and Republicans

care about most. But first, today marks one year since the start of Russia's war on

Ukraine. And millions of Ukrainians are still far from home. That's our one big thing.

The war in Ukraine has created a massive refugee crisis over the last year. The United

Nations Refugee Agency calls it the largest displacement of people in Europe since World

War II. Roughly 13 million Ukrainians are currently displaced from their homes, about

5 million within Ukraine and 8 million more across Europe. One young mother, Olga Afanasyeva,

fled Kiev for crack-out Poland at the start of the war.

First 10 days, we stayed in Kiev with my child, my husband, and I really didn't want to go.

At some point, I have some kind of a nervous breakdown, maybe. So on the 10th day of war,

I was just crying whole day through. We would get exhausted with this tension and this alarm.

On that point, my husband said, just please take the kid and go somewhere. I have a friend

with whom we are living together right now in Kraków. And she said, I will take care.

You will have some kind of place to say, so you won't be alone. There was no schedule of the

trains at that time. But then we had information that there will be some kind of train to Warsaw.

I was really in shock and was doing everything needed mechanically, just not to lose my kid,

not to lose my stuff, though we had only two small backpacks at that point.

Yeah, not knowing for how long there would go.

It would be more than six months before Olga went back home. Despite the news, despite that you

understand that it's like really dangerous, you still go home. And when you come home,

it feels like it's warm and it's your place. In the place where you're supposed to be.

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