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Greetings, comrades.

And welcome to the eastern border.

And, uh, well, welcome from the real, real eastern border, from Odessa, you know,

the place where all the jokes are. Except this time of the year, it's really not that funny.

We're here after quite a grueling ride, really. It took us 17 hours on a train, and then we had a five-hour break,

and then we had 12 more hours on a bus to get here from Hungary. But he arrived. There are

blockposts, I bit aware, of course, and we were thoroughly checked on the border. I think

maybe a bit too much, because my laptop's SSD is, I think,

plugged out of the socket and I don't have the tools to fix it myself.

So I'm going to do that tomorrow.

And then we're going to have to send in some documentation to authorities here,

to get full accreditation and everything. But we're working on it. It's all great.

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