Deborah Richardson
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His wife's now pregnant.
They're due to have another baby in March.
And on one hand, I go, that's the greatest gift and gives them hope and joy.
And on the other hand, I go, and we're bringing them into this world that they're still subjected to.
You know, Marco goes to kindergarten and is often getting evacuated down to a bomb shelter and
And this is happening multiple times a day.
You know, initially the bombs didn't reach Kiev and so they were relatively safe.
But the drone warfare now makes it accessible and easy and the indiscriminate bombing is incredible.
They are not bombing...
military places.
They are bombing kindergartens and hospitals.
And life is tough.
Right now, it's minus 20 degrees.
It's wintertime.
The Russians have bombed every energy infrastructure that Ukraine has.
And so most of the country is in darkness.
They don't have heating.
They don't have lights.
It's heartbreaking.
It is absolutely heartbreaking.