olga rudenko in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. well, stephen, thank you for having me.great pleasure to have you on the show. just a short time ago, you reflected with time magazine on the impact of what is now a six—month—long war that you have lived through, you've experienced. you said, "none of us are the same people. "we may look the same on the outside, but on the inside, "we have changed." how have you changed? well... even as you were saying that, i was thinking about how true it is, especially today, you know, six months, exactly six months after the war started. and looking back, i honestly can't believe how i could even come to the office, this office, on any day and think that i was having a difficult day while, actually, you know, in retrospect, it was so normal, the lives that we were having before the invasion. we don't say "before the war", of course, because the war, as we know, started in 2014, has been going on for eight yea rs. and personally, i think i've become — like the rest of ukraine — more resilient. and i think, like the rest of us, personall