has left the country's second largest city, kharkiv, in ruins. turkey's metro stations, restaurants, and bars, now function as bomb shelters. including school pubs, seen here, for the russian invasion of ukraine. it's also the bar where next guest, christian miller, and olya tymoshenkova met two years ago, 12 days before. -- received a call strongly recommended he leave the country. they raced to plan their escape to safety, after negative covid test, they got in a taxi and headed straight to the kharkiv airport. all the airports out of kharkiv were booked. so they went home, and booked a 1 am trained to kyiv, they landed into biloxi georgia, at 7 am on valentine's day, that was nine days before russia invaded ukraine. joining me now, from georgia, are christian miller and olya tymoshenkova, think you both so much for being here.