Residents walking across a pedestrian bridge over the Uzh River, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. — Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times
IT was well past midnight in Mukachevo, a city of cobblestone streets tucked into Ukraine’s western tip, and a group of students lingered by the river, debating what to grab from a nearby 24/7 supermarket.
It looked like a classic Sunday night. But in wartime Ukraine – where curfews and Russian air assaults have turned nights into tense silence or sudden explosions – the scene was surreal.
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