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Shock and surreality from people who did not think the invasion would happen. what was that transition like from peace to war? >> the first day of the war was completely surreal. the day before -- my partner and i actually went to kharkiv sort of as a break. we had been down in donbas previously on the weekend, doing some reporting in frontline towns around there, and we went to kharkiv, had a nice airbnb. the day before the war, we walked around the city, the fine art museum and saw all this wonderful, classical artwork and architecture that they had on display. and we got home that evening a...

Kind of knew. >> you were there at the beginning, when kharkiv started to have this indiscriminate shelling. and we are now seeing that in mariupol. and many people noted that this was similar to the tactics used in syria. you cover the warren donbas, in the eastern part of ukraine. what is it like to be in a city undergoing this? >> yeah, as i said, i got out right before the worst of this. the missile attack that if the government building in kharkiv ways white there, it hit the morning after we left. there was some shelling in the city center as we left as well. the images you are seeing ri...