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The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer in Kyiv

‘We’re tired of being scared’: Kyiv residents take steps towards normality

Women drink at a bar
Normality returning: women drink at a bar in Kyiv. Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Walking around a small outdoor street market in a pretty Kyiv courtyard, one could be forgiven for forgetting for a brief moment that Ukraine is in the midst of a brutal war that not long ago saw some of its bloodiest fighting just a few miles from the capital.

A DJ is playing techno tunes, so beloved in a city that has been proudly calling itself the new Berlin, as locals sell vintage clothes.

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