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But there is also a sense of anxiousness as men from the capital continue to be called to the front lines - where as many as 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying in fighting each day - and the threat of attack still looms large, with Kyiv being struck by Russian missiles as recently as last Sunday.
After Russia’s initial assault on Kyiv was repelled in the invasion’s opening month, leaving death and destruction, the capital has found itself in the position of becoming largely a bystander in the war.
While Kyiv’s civilians enjoy a period of calmness, fighting continues to rage in Ukraine’s east and south, where Putin has redirected his forces and military resources.
The burned-out hulks of Russian tanks are still being hauled away from the capital’s outskirts, even as Western-supplied weapons turn more Russian armour into junk on battlefields barely 300 miles away.
Cafes and restaurants are open again, the chatter and the chink of glasses from their outdoor tables providing a semblance of normalcy - until everyone returns home for the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew - which is less constraining than it used to be when Kyiv had seemed at risk of falling under Russian control.
Air raid alarms still sound regularly, screeching on phone apps, but they’re so rarely followed by blasts - unlike in pounded front-line towns and cities - that few pay them much mind. Cruise missile strikes that wrecked a warehouse and a train repair workshop on June 5 were Kyiv’s first in five weeks.
Dog walkers and parents pushing strollers ambled unperturbed nearby even before the flames had been extinguished, a sign that in the few months since the February 24 invasion, this has become a version of normality.
“Vladimir Putin’s armies were pushed back from the capital and redeployed in eastern Ukraine.”
Lol.
If Vlad wanted Kiev gone it would be a blasted out wasteland.
How dumb do they think their readers are?
(34 * 1.8)+32 = 93.2 F
What a dumb piece of propaganda.
Didn’t see a single fatty in these photos...just the one “curvaceous” lady on the little scooter.
George Washington Zelensky was also entertaining the crowds with his erotic bondage dance routine. It was amazing that he did this after conquering Moscow single-handed the night before.
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Shouldn’t they be on the front lines fighting for their country?
Nice to have leisure time when the taxpayers of the United States are defending your country.
The Russian objective is and always was freeing the ethnic and historically Russian part of Ukraine from eight years of persecution and genocide at the hands of neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists.
Excellent pictures...