trickles into the air b, trees and sweating out up to 1000 liters of water in a day. or sea forest fires, evaporating large amounts of moisture until in to get the answer and learn more about this phenomenon. a heavy, invisible river that flows through the sky starts march 23rd on d, w m . 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 keith. lesson jenko family are letting me into their lives for a day by filled with while rita goes to wake up, her daughter all next under starts getting breakfast. ready? ah. liquidity for you have normal electricity right now. i'm older. oh, 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 year, but we live with his job as an electrician has turned them 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. this is going 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 color, i'm part of 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 signed 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 battles was fit to be as useful as possible. let us in the year of which as you per site you,

you could be more discussion with the global polak sanders work is vital for hundreds of thousands of ukrainians in the line. he and his wife vito 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, alas, but 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 we will retire is 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. he gets on it and that's just how it looks, all 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. it'll simply insure a little bit in the 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 to 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 florida. blue 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 cave, 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. here dipped, i'm good. 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. cook i

ah, next i visit bladder. together with friends, she set up the key of 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 anymore. and i'm just gonna remind them sets of citizen. and it's the same with lot as me in albany. yeah. there's been a change that is numbers like i said, that inevitably. oh me the right. oh,

there work is voluntary. it gives them the strength to process their own traumas. and they hope to pass on that strength to others. then we'll wait. there must then oh, we perform for soldiers who've just come out of the hospital, for example, his stick, his voice, fill out a book. but as usual, 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 really the front line is here in your heart. it's not just a physical battle. yeah, that's our message. we mustn't lose heart. why from windows wireless them at a fire? ah ah good with 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. they play down their worries of humor. oh. but the sirens no longer were you if there was which differed? it will. yeah. so i did as missiles hit the capital. we continue our journey another day. another dark early morning. so i'm it keeps central station. oh, department, monday woodstock. we're heading to the city where i was born hunt keith, it's a 5 hour trained journey east of here. a few of the city has been badly damaged and

hit by power outages to because the russians have targeted the power stations with our kids in store for a my parents left hot, keep 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 kid. so 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 mean, oh lena, a year ago, she fled is zoom in eastern ukraine for the west of the country. her city was occupied for months. now she's returning home for the 1st time spoken truth over. so how do you feel about returning with listeners?

said she theft. it's been destroyed. i've now house to a 1010 people the shuttle home. so i'm going to my son in bella, clint. well look at you, i desperately wanted to go back home with it's all i want was, i'm just tired of. so going home. why? like so many others. she's tired of being afraid. chunky is ukraine's 2nd biggest city. it's located in the northeast of the country, close to the russian border.

the district of sal, teeth, 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 uh with, with, with us with, oh, did they say they going to rebuild it? but how's that going to happen? no, get them was the, was the normally when i did with 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. would. mm

hm. mm the outer wall of lydia's apartment lies just 30 kilometers from the russian border with others here. von warner and these are all apartments have lydia? lydia lived down there with her husband separately 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. if, if angles created yet suddenly there's a brief moment of joy used to be a, it's a bible dating back to 19 i for it's been in our family for generations. you and my son has just found it to myself. you will,

is sidney. you suggest as joel willis more to park as i love you, i am keen to catch a glimpse of this precious item that has stirred such emotion. her son brings the bible over for us to have a look. and thankfully, it's all intact. good teeth they gather up a few other precious belongings and all they have left of their home. mm hm. 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 you've got. everyone has their own frontline, 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 lacrisha 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, like sander worked 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 every one has to do with out 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 cutting, 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, citizen us is municipal. all young ladies as it misses the neighbors, have even started greeting. they used to think were just some random guy. they called the meanwhile, the cultural front is getting ready to go on stage. despite the sirens, the missile attacks and sub 0 temperatures in the hall, florida 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 with a v school or 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, help practically run away? 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. would you better than i do? you have a wife and children. how old are your children? 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? there's been a long, are you staying? the leading is probably the hardest part from you. 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 good bye. or what happens when life breaks down, then there's systemic contradiction. my name,

civilized that has come up to the society. name supplies that was pure and i was killed in the embrace of a man was and he is almost every one here and this hall has been on the frontline. and after a few days off at home, they'll be going back there for us. we find ourselves soon. these men will be returning to the fiercely contested city of buck mood. isn't it? true, ross was much worse. a person may end up believing in an effort the very place where the love of law as life was killed just a few months ago. the muslim for, can you put into words what you felt when you heard that news a fair those no music but you can express it in music. yeah. walter, yes. and i was in the theater when it happened to me in the soviet his comrade

wrote to me to push a period. 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 said you are a boy, i can't remember that moment. mm hm. and because there was a break, a crescent there, and every one went outside and i just sat there and cried yet without 15. but i don't remember the 1st week after his death was told the tabatha was, but i composed a lot of music for him. fisher, my mother went, that's all i have thought there was in the window with some 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, in a with

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

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

they all talk sooner or later in the healy pools work on. first and foremost, they just need to talk a little which it, it will hurt if they need to talk about their problems. less will problem which emotional and that of course, the more they talk about their problems are the easier it will be for them later on . shem bush or the more they try to hide their problems. the worse the repercussions are when it can even end in suicide, near how do you wanna reduce with civil service? oh, it's project is not financed by the state, but relies on donations, most of which come from other european countries knew what to do. there are 80 places on the program with on that he is part of the latest group to arrive to worry about that. now that can be arranged. for a few hours ago, he was on the frontline sheesh drove over to have william muskrat, which has like a switch off your mind during battle. he, the cortisol does fall ginia of the clothes and you returned to your unit solid.

you rest and relax, which is severe, but other you do that 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 and 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 more stood in what else and only then do you think wow, i survived the producers 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. 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 luke mila booth. this is the only area where they can be,

the rest is all been destroyed with the we offer profitable, but how do you manage to work here? everything's in ruins, which is sort of the roof and all of that, we just work. i like this. this is how it's been in the war. we just live and work those who are mentally strong back. our children fighting our husbands advising, and we're working here on our own front line in my bathroom for with leo. mila pablo. and 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, oh, hanging saltisha would destroy your entire body. it destroys both your outward body

and your emotions. so 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 nearby. 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 the leash when i was young, we used to drive over to russia to visit them. i just broached and asked, now old family ties have been severed. there's a, there's

a dog. they even say that it's our own fault and that with firing it. how so son is above city. 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. but for more than a year now, nothing has been normal, broke 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, saw, 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 yeah, 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 elbows, it's just double w. dubois mendoza with life and ukraine is a daily battle. a constant threat of danger and the fighting on many different fronts is grueling way,

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