A downloadable app that has been voiced by 'Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill is triggered when air raid alarms sound in Ukraine.
A downloadable app that has been voiced by "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill is triggered when air raid alarms sound in Ukraine."Attention. Air raid alert," the voice says with a Jedi knight's gravitas. "Proceed to the nearest shelter."
"A fairy tale about good versus evil is resonant with what's going on in Ukraine," Hamill said in an interview with The Associated Press. "The Ukrainian people rallying to the cause and responding so heroically ... It's impossible not to be inspired by how they've weathered this storm." "Here I sit in the comfort of my own home when in Ukraine there are power outages and food shortages and people are really suffering," he said. "It motivates me to do as much as I can."
Bohdan Zvonyk, a 24-year-old app user who lives in the repeatedly struck western city of Lviv, says he chose Hamill's voiceover rather than the Ukrainian setting because he is trying to improve his English. He's a "Star Wars" fan, too.After one alert, Zvonyk was riding a trolley bus when Hamill's voice rang out from his phone. He said the man in front "turned to me and said, smiling: 'Oh, those damn Sith,'" to describe Russian forces.
Sometimes it can be wise to shut Hamill off. Yeremina forgot to do that on a trip outside Ukraine - to Berlin - and paid for the error when the alarm started shrieking at 6 a.m. and, again, when she rode the subway in the German capital. She wasn't alone. Another person in the subway car also had the app and it erupted, too. The two of them first cursed, but then "it made both me and that person smile," Yeremina recalled.
In the invasion's first year, air-raid alarms sounded more than 19,000 times across the country, so "of course people are getting tired," he said. The app has been downloaded more than 14 million times. Hrytsenko is among those who use its English-language setting to hear Hamill's voice.
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