‘People have become nicer’: one resident describes life in Kyiv

Sergiy, 50, is a university lecturer who did not want to leave the Ukraine capital despite the advance of Russian troops

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We try to live our life here in Kyiv as normally as we can in the circumstances. We know how close we are to the line between life and death. When there is so much killing all around our only instinct is to survive.

I walk around my beautiful city of Kyiv every day and I take photographs of some of the nicest places.