anastasia sereda, rfe/rl's correspondent from kyiv, joined in and talked about what is happening in the about the expectations of kyivans. what did ukrainians feel on the day of the declaration of ukrainian independence. our correspondents in three ukrainian cities, dnipro, lviv and kharkiv, asked about the memories and impressions of those who remember those times. let's listen. every person lives with hope, and when you are given hope, as we are now in this difficult wartime, we all dream, live, with the hope that the war will end tomorrow, so i can almost say that then there was also hope that something would change the best, but i don’t like that part, i don’t remember anything good, ugh, i don’t remember anything, because i don’t like it, we were together good was the right choice, it seemed that that was it, we separated from russia, separated from russia and will build our own independent state, but russia did not think so, they were preparing for its destruction, i cried for joy, that's how it was, we were everyone is comforted, we waited and are waiting for that independence, t