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'You can't live underground': Fatalism and defiance define life in war-battered Kyiv

Matthew Day
 14.09.2026, 16:07
A woman looks at smoke rising over a residential area of ​​Kyiv following a Russian attack. Photo by Denys Glushko/Apostrophe/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
A woman looks at smoke rising over a residential area of ​​Kyiv following a Russian attack. Photo by Denys Glushko/Apostrophe/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

Since late August, attack warnings in Kyiv have come around the clock.