The hard realities of Ukraine’s capital are that a once comfortably livable city of 3 million people is now becoming a tough place to live.
FILE - People walk through the city center which lost electrical power after yesterday's Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov. 24, 2022. . But Kyiv has hope, resilience and defiance in abundance. And perhaps more so now than at any time since Russia invaded Ukraine nine months ago. The play finishes. The actors take their bows. Then they let loose with wartime patriotic zeal. “Glory toThe actors aren't done.
When Butch, her French bulldog, needs a walk and the electricity is out in the elevator of her Kyiv high-rise, Lesia Sazonenko and the dog take the stairs — all 17 flights, down and up. The maternity clinic executive tells herself the slog is for an essential cause: victory. A straw doll and a bowl of pins next to a framed photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Simona pizzeria in central Kyiv also speak of the city's anger. Plenty of customers clearly felt the cathartic need to vent; the doll is pin-stuck from head nearly to toe.
“There was no way to even tell our families that we were OK,” she says. Yet one of her first reactions after the all-clear sounded was to cough up money for the war effort. Well, the living was easier in the capital this summer, when bathers flocked to beaches on the Dnieper River. Russia, beaten back from the capital's outskirts in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, wasn't pounding Ukraine's power grid with the destructive regularity that is making life so tough now.The southern port city of Mariupol had fallen in May when its last Ukrainian defenders surrendered after a gruesome siege.
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