‘This smile is neurotic)))’
The psychological price of the war in Ukraine will be a debt to be paid for many years to come.
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Yesterday, my fixer in Kyiv, Dima, sent an Instagram video of a woman squatting at the entrance of her home with her tabby cat, furiously vaping as explosions rocked her city. He wrote: “How it feels now in Zaporizhia.” I winced and startled along with the woman. The short video is a terrifying and heartbreaking look at what it’s like to live in a city under Russian bombardment.
Then, last night, Dima sent me short videos of black plumes of smoke rising from explosions in Kyiv. One of the missiles launched at the city, he said, had hit less than a 10-minute walk from the apartment I’d stayed in over the summer.
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