Letter from Kyiv: The messed-up day-to-day of living under Putin’s cruel air war
People have absorbed violence and terror into their lives. Somehow, they keep going – quietly rescuing, evacuating, replacing, mending, adapting … and sometimes saving tiny animals It was a glorious balmy night, and I was walking home from dinner. I’d just eaten fried red mullet from the Black Sea on a pavement terrace, listening to the cries of the last swifts as darkness crept over the city. A couple of blocks from where I was staying, there was a curious sight: a couple and their dog were sta
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A woman drinking coffee in her apartment, which was damaged in the night attack on the UNIT.City residential complex in Kyiv. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianView image in fullscreenA woman drinking coffee in her apartment, which was damaged in the night attack on the UNIT.City residential complex in Kyiv. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianThis is EuropeWorld newsLetter from Kyiv: I marvel at how people deal with daily life under Putin’s cruel air warPeople have absorbed violence and terror into their lives.
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