this was monday s post. there is a siren app on my phone, waking me up from sleep. it s an airstrike alarm. kids, wake up, it s a sirens. we grabbed our blankets and waddled into the corridor of the apartment that doesn t have any windows. sit down on the chairs and try to retain the feeble remains of sleep as we wait for the alarm to stop. the last time i changed clothes for sleep was 12 days ago since the start of the war. we all sleep fully clothed because you just never know what might happen. the person behind these post is zee gimon, her husband sam is serving in ukraine s civil territorial defense. almost every day for the past two weeks, she s been sharing these posts that give a glimpse of what life in ukraine is like right now. she s currently hunkering down in kyiv with her parents and her two children. zee gimon joins us now from kyiv where she s been taking cover with her family. miss gimon, thank you for taking the time to be with us. tell me about it sort of hard to be
[inaudible] [inaudible] several i m just gonna try and our audio, we re having a difficult time and i think that s because of the situation that we re in in ukraine with the attacks. there are some infrastructure problems. so we re just gonna try to fix this. i want to apologize for a moment cause i know you re going through so much and the least you need is a communication problem with me. so, we re gonna just try to fix this. zee gimon is a wife, a mother, a daughter. we re gonna see if we can fix that audio and come right back to her. i m gonna take a second to bring you a rare moment of levity. this is such a terrible crisis but earlier i ran into these three adorable ukrainian children wearing the winter hat that has nyc emblazoned on it. the boy is pasha, next to him as his brother timore, the little girl s their sister liza. when they saw our cameras today they just had to say hello.