“I can’t stop imagining the following scenario,” berdynskykh_k, one of Ukraine’s most accomplished political journalists, told joshuayaffa. “Kyiv holds out, and then I emerge from the metro and am one of the only journalists covering victory day.”
Late in the afternoon of March 1st, a gray, damp day in Kyiv, I heard—or, rather, felt—a chest-thumping burst from outside the window of my hotel. A spiral of black smoke floated upward, past office buildings and apartment blocks. Russia had targeted the city’s television tower, a thousand-foot landmark of the Soviet era that rises above the western edge of the city’s skyline.
Berdynskykh is thirty-eight, with shoulder-length brown hair and a demeanor that is both reassuringly competent and disarmingly self-deprecating. She had spent the day at her mother’s apartment, organizing provisions, calling relatives elsewhere in Ukraine, taking a shower, swapping clothes, and weighing whether to leave town. Many of her colleagues from, the magazine where she is the chief political correspondent, have relocated to western Ukraine.
We set up a picnic—alfresco, as we joked—on a blanket laid out on the platform. Galina produced what, in my famished state, looked like a Ukrainian bounty: boiled potatoes, sour pickles, slick pork fat. Berdynskykh and her family are from Kherson, a city in the south, where the Dnieper River empties into the Black Sea, not far from. It is largely Russian-speaking, with cultural and historical ties to its larger neighbor that stretch back for centuries.
As we sat on the platform, overhead televisions played the evening news: “Russian soldiers taken prisoner. Missiles in Kharkiv,” the chyron read. Earlier that day, carpet bombing of residential buildings in Kharkiv had killed at least eleven people, with some struck down in the street while holding grocery bags in their hands. A missile strike had hit the central square, throwing up a wall of fire.
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