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Okay, so going down the stairs to walk the dog.
Reluctant to use the elevator today because there are explosions in my area, mostly pretty rare ones, but over the last hour, maybe more frequent.
This is recorded in Kyiv by a woman named Katja.
And it takes you into the everydayness of this war in this very intimate, three dimensional way.
I'm going to play you a bit more of this before I say more about it.
And I already have noticed that the best way to know if they are really close is to, you know, observe the birds.
If the birds start like panicking and like flying away, that means that explosion is probably relatively close.
Oh, here, there was another one.
I really need to have my dog pee.
There is a beep of the door.
And so day, I think second of the war, I think it was February 25th, there was shooting that I could hear from three directions.
And then when I came home, almost immediately I heard this loud metallic noise and I looked out the window and there was a tank driving along my building.
So there is a dig in the ground where Russian tank was driving.
And my dog is considering peeing on it right now, which is frankly hilarious.
But if you go along them, you can clearly see, okay, the birds are flying.
I think I will try to head back in direction in general direction of my house.