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Romeo Krokiatsky lives in Kiev, Ukraine.

And the main thing he wants you to know about that is that a year into rushes invasion, things are pretty normal until they aren't.

My best buddy lives in New York actually and I was talking to him like, last week or something or two weeks ago.

And he was asking me like, how was and when I was telling him he's like, well, it doesn't sound like too much has changed.

And then he rates went off. A lot of enough that you can hear it through like a window.

So that's the situation and I'd say start clarity.

Romeo grew up in New York City, but he moved to Kiev as an adult and became a journalist.

Now he's the managing editor of the new voice of Ukraine.

I last spoke with him about a year ago when the war was still fresh.

It felt right to call him back now and see how he was holding up.

He says, at least where he is, it's the erratic electrical supply that would tip you off that a war is on.

And when the lights go out, you can hear the difference.

You can smell it too.

If the power is all good, then things look more or less fine as long as you don't pass a building.

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