‘It’s our house’: mood in Kyiv calm despite threat of Russian attack

Residents in Ukraine's capital defiant, with many ready to fight - but they also have other concerns

At weekends Yevgeny Tereshchenko goes to the woods outside Kyiv and practises his shooting. We need to be ready, morally and physically," Tereshchenko explained, showing off a video in which he springs athletically into action and fires a rifle several times.

A Ukrainian army officer until two years ago, Tereshchenko is preparing for a possible Russian attack. If Moscow does launch a further military operation against Ukraine, assuming diplomatic talks fail this week, he and his friends are ready to fight, he said. There are a lot of us. It's our house, our country," he pointed out.