If it was your family, your friends under a hail of Russian shelling, what would you do? Ukrainian Michiganders are living on edge right now, thinking of loved ones in the grip of the invasion. One Ukrainian American in Ann Arbor says since all this happened, she feels like everything in her life has changed.

GUEST:

Irina Bondarenko, ceramic artist and lead statistician at the University of Michigan School of Public Health

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