Air raid sirens wail as artistic swimmers Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva rest on their only free day from their rigourous training program in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. They are the stars of Ukraine's Olympic-medal-winning team, which returned to the city to train for next summer's Paris Olympics, despite its proximity to the front line and being regularly shelled.
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00:33 It started, and we were in the heart of Kiev.
00:36 It was very big explosion, destroyed every building.
00:41 And our pool also, so we must leave our hometown,
00:45 leave our parents, relatives.
00:47 And we maybe two months, we always read the news.
00:51 We don't cry.
00:52 We can sleep.
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01:13 It's not usual situation.
01:15 Every day, maybe five, six times at night also.
01:20 It's normal.
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02:39 For now, it's like we have one goal.
02:42 We must go for this.
02:44 We must do everything that we can.
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