well, one disability is more likely to lose their jobs. in the pandemic black lives matter, protect shine. a spotlight on racially motivated police violence, same sex marriage is being legalized in more and more countries, discrimination and inequality are part of everyday life. for many, we ask why? because life is diversity. to make up your own mind in d, w. need for mines. the war has brought darkness to ukraine. rush as attack on the whole country has continued for more than a year. now. i've been covering it as a correspondent. i wanted to know what this war is doing to people and other coping

. i found the answers that i received during this ice cold winter, deeply moving and surprising over a 100 on profit. and it's early morning and cave does in jenko, family are letting me into their lives for a day by filled with wild veto goes to wake up. her daughter alexander starts getting breakfast. ready? ah. literature for you have normal electricity right now i'm older. yes. we have electricity because industry isn't up and running yet. they started 8. now it's only 7 so we should still have power. a let us show using us is do we live with

his job as an electrician has turned him into a hero. for many more on that later. right now, he still in his pajamas and a hero for his youngest daughter because he's made her cocoa with alexander, enjoys these moments of normality. when the war started a year ago, he didn't know whether life would ever be normal again. did the risk of you and if we, my wife said no, i'm not leading keith without you. and i told her, i can't leave, i have to work either i go to work or i go to the military and tell them to let me help where i can. but 1st was like all my colleagues call their home, put a what you may wish of issue. and we decided right on the 1st day of the war, it to go to work. sure. and then decide who could do. what do you look to death to someone i could have sign up for military service. they'd probably have taken any one of them, but i thought it's better to do the job that i do best fit to be as useful them as

possible. let us in the year of which as you per site, you cooked him. what does question of with the doodle with folic sanders work is vital for hundreds of thousands of ukrainians. why he and his wife eat? i went to school together, but now they're responsible for 2 small children in the middle of a war zone. ah, ah, stop the children were afraid of they've got used to it. right now we're no longer hearing such loud noises. or as close by as a few weeks ago, which will v ties off to work. she's employed by a medical laboratory. ah,

bullock sander is taking his daughters to kindergarten on days like these without explosions or power outages. family life seems almost normal. if other than that is just howard law on the inside, you know that everything could change in a minute thought it might all seem normal, but inwardly it's a very different story of simple useful learning. inwardly it's not normal. oh richard, don't know that we're constantly aware that we're at war, and that feeling isn't going to go away as soon as the way should handle. we hope that everything will be over by the end of the year at the latest as well. but that feeling based on all that's happened will stay with us for the rest of our lives. in a 30 day. with russia has launched air raids on cities across ukraine. more than $100000.00 buildings have been destroyed and tens of thousands have been killed,

including soldiers on both sides. and there is no end in sight. in the center of keith, russian tanks destroyed in the fighting, had been put on display like trophies. the war is ever present in the capital, but so too is the desire for normality. and give them, you know, if there are coffee kiosks on every corner and key because this one has no power right now, but they still find a way to manage with a diesel generator is loud, it's loud and it stinks, but at least there's coffee, all the time ukrainians are looking for ways to continue their normal lives,

despite the war of lamadue to live. i ah, next i visit bladder. together with friends, she set up the key cultural front. there a group of musicians who sing for soldiers and collect donations. they're young and know how to have fun, but no one here has been left unscathed by the war. even if at times they appear care free. the war is reflected in their music. and i've been asking upon the mustang and the russian invasion has been a catalyst. i've never written 70 songs before. i no longer play the stuff i read before the will because it's not about me any more. and i get from the, from on the vets of citizen and it's the same with blood as new albany. yeah, there's been a change citizen of it's like i said that inevitably along the lines of their work

is voluntary. it gives them the strength to process their own traumas and they hope to pass on that strength to others. within the sam oh, we perform for soldiers who've just come out of the hospital, for example, his stick, his voice with the lat, aboard. but as using what we want to get them energy, is that to tell them the voice, hey, we can do this. so we're in this together that we, we, the front line is here in your heart. it's not just a physical battle. yeah, that's our message. we mustn't lose hearts why jim would apply the same edify. ah, ah, good with that for their performance,

they're going to a place outside. keep that we can't name for security reasons. many soldiers are supposed to be coming, but then suddenly it's no longer clear whether the cultural front will be able to perform. for a number of days, it's been coleman, keith. but now the air raid sirens go off. ah, they play down their worries with humor. oh, but the sirens no longer were you. that service was suitable. no idea as missiles hit the capital, we continue our journey another day, another dark early morning. so i'm at keith's central station. oh, department monday which dot com. we're heading to the city where i was born hockey . it's a 5 hour train journey east of here. 5th of the city has been badly damaged and hit

by power outages too, because the russians have targeted the power stations with our kids and some stuff up a my parents left hot keys in 1995, taking me with them. part of my family lives in ukraine, another part in russia. i'm intrigued to know what awaits me and how to keep a similar issue since the russian invasion. these trains have brought millions of people to safety, allowing them to flee the fighting. despite continuing attacks, the trains are still running, and they're on time. for many, they've been a life saver. on the train, i meet alina. a year ago, she fled, is zoom in eastern ukraine for the west of the country. her city was occupied for months. now she is returning home for the 1st time. it's going to be true for sure

. how do you feel about returning with this? no city deft. it's been destroyed. i've no house to a 1010 of a shuttle. so i'm going to my son in bella, clint. well, of you, i desperately wanted to go back home with. it's all i want was, i'm just tired of it all. so go home. i like so many others. she's tired of being afraid. chunky is ukraine's at 2nd biggest city. it's located in the northeast of the country, close to the russian border. the

district of sal tv cup was previously home to almost 1000000 people. now it's a ghost town. lydia's 8th floor apartment was one of many that was destroyed with a with, with us with idea. they say they going to rebuild it. but how's that going to happen? no, get them was there was the knob with his voice. suddenly lydia has only come back because she and her family are looking for a bible. she tells me it's an old family heirloom. this place was her home for 3 decades. with

the outer wall of lydia's apartment live just 30 kilometers from the russian border with others. here yvonne, warner and these are all apartments, have lydia von. lydia lived down there with her husband except verbiage for it's really difficult to find the right words. but this place, this devastation shows the full extent of just how brutal this war is, is of anger created. yet suddenly, there's a brief moment of joy used to be a, it's a bible dating back to 19 i for the spin in our family, for generations. you and my son has just found it. you will. you seem to use it

just as joel willis more later because i didn't do as of you. i'm keen to catch a glimpse of this precious item that has stirred such a motion. her son brings the bible over for us to have a look. thankfully, it's all intact. give the thought they gather up a few other precious belongings and all they have left of their home. mm. in view of all the devastation. i can't stop thinking about lydia's question. how can all this be rebuilt? ah

ah, back and keith, electrician, alexander, is about to start his 12 hour shift yukon . every one has their own front line for some are directly on the front line, facing the enemy with a machine gun is what we have our own frontline here with its own challenges. and right now i'm in the right place. i don't know about the future. maybe i'll take up arms to at some stage to defend my country. no one can rule that out right now on the look a shout that said no neighbor kusha anecdote. let us all look sanders frontline, is the battle to keep the capital supplied with electricity. since october power stations have been under attack, it's his job to prevent lengthy power outages and keith gillard right now we have 50 to 60 percent of the power that would normally be available. 35 percent of

that is set aside for critical infrastructure in a day before from 9 am. each day industry is operating at full capacity. so then more households have to go without electricity whatsoever because industry has to keep going so that there is bread. pasta tanks, if they're even produce in our country, who knows? i owe lic sander works with konstantin for the past 6 years. they've been a team traveling from one electricity sub station to another and keeping the local power grid, running smoothly. but their job has taken on a whole new significance since the start of the war. they control the flow of electricity to ensure no one is without power completely. although everyone has to do without for a few hours each day. it's a nerve wracking job. they're constantly repairing what the russian attacks have destroyed. so electricians are now often seen as heroes and ukraine. just with do

you sense that in your daily work was labeled research. people have started treating us with more respect because they understand now how important we are before the war. we were basically invisible power was just always there. and if there was a power cut in every one got upset, wondering what we were playing and fire. now i think there are more understanding and respect us, at least i hope they do. little dominion. we know assisted in us is municipal. all young ladies as it is, the neighbors have even started greeted him. they used to think were just some random guy. because meanwhile, the cultural front is getting ready to go on stage. despite the sirens, the missile attacks and sub 0 temperatures in the hall. louder and the other musicians have decided to perform for the soldiers. including anton, he's with a battalion, an eastern ukraine, a year ago he was an i t specialist. now, he's a soldier to see the school. all joining the army is emotionally much easier than

remaining a civilian. if you're a civilian, you're constantly thinking about what you can do. do you donate money? how practically? runaway, there are numerous options. joining the army is very easy. you turn up and all your questions are gone. you know exactly what you have to do. i just got this last little bit better than i do. you have a wife and children. look at how old are your children and i think i have a 5 year old daughter. you bookstore. what questions does she ask you when you're at home in the morning? isn't that long? are you staying? you're leaving is probably the hardest part from him. anton tells me he actually left his family before he needed to because he was afraid if he stayed longer, it would be even harder to say goodbye or what happens from like breaks down. then there's systemic contradiction.

my name, civilized that has come up to the society name supplies and that was pure and i was in the embrace of a man was and he is almost every one here in this hall has been on the front line and after a few days off at home, they'll be going back there for us to put us in that we find ourselves soon. these men will be returning to the fiercely contested city of buck mood. isn't it true? rosseters much worse. a person may end up believing in anything. the very place where the love of land has life was killed just a few months ago. the most number can you put into words what you felt when you heard that news or the fair those no. no one was the cause, but you can express it in music. yes. yes,

and i was in the theater when it happened to me in the soviet his comrade wrote to me to push a previous. he just wrote, hello. you know that i did, and i knew immediately that my boyfriend was either wounded or dead. i didn't. he wrote that my boyfriend had fallen. i ran out of the theater and sat down on the balcony. he says you are a boy. i can't remember that moment. mm hm. and because there was a break, a crescent, and every one went outside and i just sat there and cried yet with. but i don't remember the 1st week after his death. don't bother me, was okay, but i composed a lot of music for him. fisher, my mother, and that's all i have with him. i don't have anything more precious than brushing. i've written 10 songs for him. it's like he lives on in the song, a

with oh, video, we noticed some of the soldiers had tears in their eyes of the brit though. yes,

it's certainly true for me, but also for the others. who did we become more sentimental? yes, i can hear a song and immediately start crying ross that wouldn't have happened before was that this little but i don't think that's a bad thing. oh, more for little but yeah, the go much simple. hm. ah . next, we travel to another location that i can't reveal at ortiz, that because soldiers come here to receive psychological support. and the aim is to treat symptoms of battlefield trauma to stop them getting worse, are allowed than the lee. since last summer, alexander has offered a one week therapy program for soldiers, but to go to why he offers various treatments. but the main focus is on conversational therapy with kirkwood with martin. how do you managed to convince the soldiers to take part with fritz from where the earth goes with the garage?

they all talk sooner later in that you the pools on 1st and foremost, they just need to talk a little which should really do. they need to talk about the problems that we have problem which emotional not, of course, the more they talk about their problems or the easier it will be for them later on . shem busher, the more they try to hide their problems. the worse to repercussions are. we can even end in suicide near how do you wanna reduce with civil service? oh, yeah, it's project is not financed by the state, but relies on donations, most of which come from other european countries and you. there are 80 places on the program with a gun that he is part of the latest group to arrive to worry about the bill that can be arranged. a few hours ago, he was on the frontline, she scribbled with him of william muskrat, which is like a switch off your mind during battle. people to pick would you all the small ginia

of the clothes and you returned to your unit solid. you rest and relax, would you severe? what other you did and it's only one or 2 weeks later that you start to analyze everything that you've experienced. dba. gotcha. and then you realize that a bullet flew right past your head. a mine exploded right near you. follow the hollow, it was a miracle that you didn't get flattened by a tank. and you realize there were dozens of times when you could have been killed is to put him on to it. i know what anthem and only then do you think. wow, i survived the corridors who are useful i'm now heading to a small town, just 15 kilometers from the russian border. it was one's home to 6000 people in. i'm wearing a bullet proof vest as the area could come under fire any time for months. the village of slots in a sustained heavy shelling. it's now almost completely destroyed, but a few 100 people have returned, including

a medical doctor called ludmilla booth. this is the only area where they can be, the rest is all been destroyed with the we are comfortable, but how do you manage to work here? everything's in ruins, which is sort of the rule from all the we just work. and i guess this is how it's been in the war. we just live and work, you know. so i mentally strong back out children of fighting a husband's advising, and we're working here on our own front line with leon mila problem. then co is now the only doctor for her entire community. she shows me the part of the clinic where she works before there was a separate treatment area just for children, but now it's too badly damaged and the power and heating no longer work. apart from ludmilla and to nurses, there is no one else working at the clinic. ah,

but alicia hanna saltisha would destroy your entire body. it destroys both your outward body and your emotions. your cardiovascular system and central nervous system suffer must this product mm. the house belonging to victoria, one of the nurses working with ludmilla is right near by. but there's not much left of it. ah, victoria has relatives living across the border in russia. they support the war against ukraine. leaves the actual address bullion. we use delish. when i was young, we used to drive over to russia to visit them, wash us roast and

a half. now old family ties have been savage, that there is a dog. they even say that it's our own fault and that with firing it. how so suddenly subsidy? that's how my relatives talk my it was didn't get the good. mm. now victoria is living in a rented apartment and hot keith. she takes the bus to work. and every day she passes the ruins of her old life. ah, it's just before 9 pm, when electrician alexander and says shift normally the streets would be brightly lit during his drive home. bought for more than a year. now nothing has been normal. come up with

i'm wondering how this young family feels when they think about the future. one is 9, was she thought we don't know whether the next air raid sirens will mean a missile hits our house or another building or whether will be hit when we're driving somewhere in the car. miss utica and it's not just missiles, there are combat drones to you the best you can we worry about our children and what future they will have on the we want them to have a future in this country. happy stuff. we don't want to have to send them to school abroad because it's safer there. that's what we think about stuff. yes. but with just the both, it's just double w to rome and doors with life and ukraine is a daily battle. a constant threat of danger and the fighting on many different

fronts is grueling way, but ukrainians have come together to help one another. and they're drawing strength from that. they all share this one hope of a future without attacks. when the darkness lifts a life without war with with

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