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The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison Kyiv

Kyiv is ‘the right place to be’, says UK ambassador after returning to city

Melinda Simmons, UK ambassador to Ukraine, in Kyiv before the start of the Russian invasion.
Melinda Simmons, UK ambassador to Ukraine, in Kyiv before the start of the Russian invasion. Photograph: Future Publishing/Getty Images

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is unlikely to have given up his ambitions to seize Kyiv after losing the battle for the city this spring, Britain’s ambassador to Ukraine warned as she returned to work in the wartime capital.

Melinda Simmons, who has moved back to Kyiv despite Russian threats against diplomats based there, said it was “overwhelming” to be back in a city that she once feared she might not see again.

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