In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chornobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.
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Joanna Kakissis
Joanna Kakissis is an international correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she leads NPR's bureau and coverage of a conflict that has upended millions of lives, affected global energy and food supplies and pitted NATO against Russia.