A Relationship Surviving 1,000 Days of War

NPR | By Joanna Kakissis,

Hanna Palamarenko, Polina Lytvynova, Greg Dixon

Published November 22, 2024 at 4:00 PM EST

Yaroslava Ivantsova and her husband, Ukrainian soldier Mykola Ivantsov, embrace at a hospital in Kyiv after he returned from being held by Russian forces as a prisoner of war.

It has been over a thousand days since Russia began it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war has had huge geopolitical ramifications, but it has also has affected the lives of millions of ordinary people. Our correspondent in Kyiv tells us how the one couple in Ukraine has weathered the conflict.

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Joanna Kakissis

Joanna Kakissis is a foreign correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she reports poignant stories of a conflict that has upended millions of lives, affected global energy and food supplies and pitted NATO against Russia.

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Polina Lytvynova

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