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.

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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.

Claire Harbage/NPR

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.