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‘I’d rather die here’: coffee, flowers and defiance on the streets of Kyiv

Russian missiles strike the city every night, but those residents who have decided to stay are embracing the new normal

  • Russia-Ukraine war: latest developments

Few countries can be quite as dedicated to a good, or at least a frequent, cup of coffee as Ukraine. Even war, with nightly bombing raids and Russian troops committing atrocities just a few dozen kilometres away, hasn’t shut down supplies of daily caffeine kicks in Kyiv.

Valentyn Kononeko, 22, offered to help out a friend at a stall in fashionable Podil district when he reopened on Monday. He is one of millions who stayed on in the city, by choice or by necessity, and is now trying to feel his way towards some kind of wartime routine.

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