Sec. Blinken said he and Sec. Austin weren’t able to visit much of Kyiv or speak to many people, but the little he did see appeared to reflect a capital trying to shake off what it had endured.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken followed a series of European leaders in traveling to the Ukrainian capital.
“We certainly saw people on the streets of Kyiv, evidence of the fact that the battle for Kyiv was won and there is — what looks on the surface, at least — to be normal life in Kyiv,” he said.Alla Sozbalo, who has been selling fruits and vegetables at Zhitniy Rinok for 28 years, at her stall in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
Vitaliy Kirochenko, top, a co-owner of Pink Freud, a cocktail bar that has become a center for volunteer work in Kyiv.When it was safe, they cooked hundreds of meals each day for soldiers and residents of the neighborhood in the bar’s small kitchen, they discussed potential escape routes in case the city fell, and they made Molotov cocktails with neighboring businesses in the small courtyard they shared.
Many residents who stayed recall watching artillery shells explode on the city’s horizon, listening to the soft crack of distant machine-gun fire and learning the difference between the boom of the city’s air defense systems working and the boom of a missile landing in a neighborhood nearby. Yevheniy Spirin, center, the editor-in-chief of Babel, with some of his employees in their office in Kyiv.“For example, now when I might hear a tram coming down the street,” added Spirin, who is from the Donbas region, where the war is now focused, “I sometimes feel compelled to run because the noise reminds me of a shell or missile exploding.”Yuliya Kolot, 24, was thrilled to be back in Kyiv after leaving for a safer village in the west.
At a popular nightclub and venue space about a half-mile west of Pink Freud, dozens of people gathered over the weekend for a tattoo fair and fundraiser for the defenders of Mariupol, who have been cornered in a steel plant with women and children sheltering alongside them from Russian airstrikes.
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