I hear you saying this war is just going to keep going the way it has gone. I don't think it's going to end in this year. Russia is going to keep trying. The fact that they didn't take Kyiv, that was sort of the death of their ambition to take over the whole country. So Ukraine definitely can still win. It's highly possible that with more support that Ukraine will be able to wreak havoc in Crimea even. But the damage has been colossal. And the question is how much more damage is there going to be in human lives and cities destroyed infrastructure, buildings, livelihoods, human lives, economy? That song is O'Yulu-Z
On the morning Russia invaded Ukraine, we called Yulya and Kurii. A year later, we’re calling them back.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Additional production help from Mykola Polosin in Kyiv.
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