'We go on living': Kyiv embraces city routines after nights of terror


FILE PHOTO: Women sit at a bus stop damaged during Russian drone and missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 10, 2025. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo

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

One quote that captures the mood and has become popular on social media platforms in Ukraine says Kyiv looks like the famously-glitzy Mediterranean city state Monaco by day, "and at night, like Afghanistan" during its war-torn years.

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