‘We’re tired of being scared’: Kyiv residents take steps towards normality

Restaurants are filling up again as clubs welcome daytime revellers, but the city remains under a cloud of war

Walking around a small outdoor street market in a pretty Kyiv courtyard, one could be forgiven for forgetting for a brief moment that Ukraine is in the midst of a brutal war that not long ago saw some of its bloodiest fighting just a few miles from the capital.

A DJ is playing techno tunes, so beloved in a city that has been proudly calling itself the new Berlin, as locals sell vintage clothes.