Hey everyone, this is just a note to you wonderful listeners. I have been sick, like really sick,

but the podcast must go on. So I apologize in advance for the vocal fry.

Hi, my name is Marina. I live in Kiev.

Hello, my name is Alexander Prohorenko. I'm from Kiev, Ukraine.

Hello, my name is Katerina.

My name is Denise. Hi there. My name is Anton.

Hi, my name is Kseni. I'm from Kiev and I'm 20 years old.

What you're hearing are voice memos recorded this past week by ordinary Ukrainians,

teachers, engineers, students, soldiers, people who are in the country at the beginning of the war

living in Ukraine. On the 24th of February 22, well, I do remember that day and I will never forget it.

I remember like super precisely what happened early morning of 24th of February, 2020.

At the time of the full-scale invasion, I was studying in the 10th grade.

I remember it so clearly on February 24th.

When the war started, I was on 16.

I remember that day almost second by second.

The first day of the war, I remember it very clear like it was yesterday.

I'm lost for words to explain the feeling, and it's not the language issue.

I would also find super difficult to explain it in my native language.

This past Monday marked three years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

It's a day that Ukrainians cannot forget.

For weeks in early 2022,

the Biden administration sounded the alarm

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