Ukraine's capital comes back to life with a mix of sorrow, dark humor and triumph
The lights dimmed, and an announcement piped through the speakers: Should the air raid sirens go off during the performance, everyone, actors included, was to head quickly to the nearby subway station for shelter.“I believe art heals wounds,” Oleksandr Tkachenko said. “We will slowly recover the cultural life of our capital.”
They are at her father’s home in a placid neighborhood along the river. The kids play in the yard, and all are sleeping well for the first time in weeks. Vynohradar, the neighborhood on Kyiv’s northern edge where they lived, was bombed again and again. Davyd’s school was destroyed, as was the kindergarten next to Ester’s day care.
In part, what reopens is dependent on having access to a bomb shelter. The zoo, for instance, doesn’t have one and remains closed. But restaurants throughout Kyiv are trying to welcome back customers. Many spent March and early April Kyiv’s airport was bombed, though, and businesses that relied on air shipments will have to adapt to an indefinite future without its services. All the country’s ports are cut off by Moscow’s Black Sea blockade.
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