KYIV (HRNW) – As missiles streaked across Kyiv’s skies one mid-February morning, a group of high school pupils sat against a metro station’s walls, scribbling away in notebooks and focused on their teacher Olena’s instructions.
To avoid the lesson being disrupted by yet another Russian attack, she had quickly moved her class underground when the air-raid sirens sounded.
“We teach math, biology, chemistry – everything according to the usual schedule,” Olena, who declined to give her last name, told Reuters.
This and similar signs of calm resilience – be it the bars packed despite the threat of missile and drone attacks, or the guides who have adapted city tours to the dictates of war – have become increasingly commonplace in Ukraine’s capital.
Nearly a year after it began, Russia’s invasion has upended life but also rallied a nation.