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TGIF: War Is Interested in You
Caman Denysenko calms his spooked cat as he joins hundreds of people seeking shelter in the subway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on February 24, 2022. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)
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By Nellie Bowles
02.25.22 — TGIF
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We’re back. It’s Friday. And the war we were warned about has begun.

→ Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday: This was not some small, symbolic operation. More than 190,000 Russian troops streamed into the country by foot and by tank. Airstrikes were reported in dozens of cities. Ukraine says Russian forces have captured Chernobyl. Many expect Kiev to fall …

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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