Outside my flat’s window, the scene could not be calmer. Five children are digging in a sandy courtyard, swaddled in thick clothes, scarves and bobble hats protecting them from the cold while their mothers chat over coffee.Shoppers bustle past with bags of groceries. Smokers puff away on door steps. Dog-walkers and joggers enter the nearby botanical gardens, with its frozen paths and red squirrels scurrying up trees.Welcome to Kiev, capital of a country encircled on three sides by a terrifying array of arms, missiles, troops and tanks.
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