Yulia, I hear your uncle saying that his life is different in the sense that he's really thrown himself into the war effort. What's the biggest difference in your life from a year ago? Well, before the war, sometimes I thought that maybe I would love to live abroad. But now I want to stay here, to raise my kids, to bring them up here in my country. That makes a lot of sense. Yulia, do you think that Ukraine is going to win this war? I don't think that it's the war only between Russia and Ukraine. If Ukraine loses the world, the whole civilization loses.
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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