07/10/2025

Kyiv Embraces City Routines after Nights of Terror

Its dwellers say, despite the threats, "we go on living"

At night, Kyiv's skies are lit by fire and boom with explosions, but by day its streets thrum in a style familiar to any European capital, as Gen Z teens on ride-share scooters speed past impeccably dressed executives en route to work.

The city of 3 million people has endured several consecutive weeks of escalating deadly Russian drone and missile attacks. But many of its residents are determined to hold on to some normality. They are living their daily routines vividly.

Shortly after dawn on Thursday, Lycra-clad joggers and cyclists emerged from homes near a downtown apartment block hit hours before by a Russian bomb. Firefighters who worked through the night to extinguish the blaze packed up their hoses. Street sweepers cleared away a carpet of glass and shrapnel.

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