The last people of Kyiv, staying for love but fighting for survival. ⬇️
🔴 Exclusive from @RuchoSharma and @connie_dimsdale
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@RuchoSharma @connie_dimsdale 👤 Communications manager Kseniia Maslova, 28, said: “I’ll be staying here as long as I have windows in my apartment”.
“It’s hard to explain why we stay but it’s some unexplainable thing inside,” she told i. “Maybe it’s just a love.”
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@RuchoSharma @connie_dimsdale Maslova told i that there was a “strange balance between life and war” in the city.
💬 She said: “We even found a cafe and for four days in a row we’ve had a cappuccino which is crazy – drinking cappuccino during the war. But it helps us to be positive.”
@RuchoSharma @connie_dimsdale 👤 Daniel, 23, an artist, is still in Kyiv, not by choice but by necessity
Men aged 18 to 60 have been barred from leaving the country and urged to join the army.
He said: “It’s not quite a ghost town, but the skies are grey and the city looks it now”
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@RuchoSharma @connie_dimsdale Daniel said he’s trying to keep strong, but it’s hard not to be depressed.
💬 “I’m thinking about my grandmother, she is still in [the] Luhansk region. I’m thinking about my friends. I’m angry with myself because I can’t do anything to help them."
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@RuchoSharma @connie_dimsdale 👤 Daria Sliepova, 27, usually works in copywriting and marketing.
She fled Kyiv shortly after the war began but returned “to support the city”.
“I’m going to stay here until our victory; until we’ve won,” she says.
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@RuchoSharma @connie_dimsdale Daria and her friends volunteer in a kitchen where they batch cook food and deliver it to people in need
💬 “For now, I don’t feel any danger actually. I know that anything can happen. But we are ready for it. We are very, very sure about our military”
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@RuchoSharma @connie_dimsdale 🔴 According to the Red Cross, most Kyiv residents have now left the capital city.
Yesterday morning, back-to-back air alerts urged residents to get to bomb shelters as quickly as possible over fears of incoming Russian missiles.
Read more. ⬇️
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