
War in Ukraine: A Firsthand Account
Chain Reaction
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The First Strikes of the War
"I think what got me to realize that it's going to be full on invasion when they rush a close to airspace along the entire border," he says. "It was not some kind of large don't pass operation. It was going to be like the full-scale invasion, the whole package." He recalls trying to get his refugee papers in Kyiv and being told nothing would happen. 'Everyone was just so irrelevant, normal still at that point'
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