When Katerina Mischenko looks out the window of her apartment in a somewhat rundown neighbourhood in Kyiv, she doesn't see the graffiti across the street or the old woman rummaging through a garbage bin below. Instead, she focuses on the thought that she is safe and free.
The tiny elevator comes to a sudden stop with a clunk and, when the door to Mischenko's apartment opens, a cacophony of complaints comes from her hungry kitten, Sonyi.
Mischenko says her family lived through the siege for two months. They spent nights underground, with little food and cooking on open fires. "I can see by photos and video it's another world, huge buildings, huge speed of life. They still didn't get how to deal with it," he says during an interview at his business, which sells coffee and pet food.Niekazakov, a 36-year-old graphic designer, has spent the last 15 months doing charity work in the area. He says he wouldn't leave, even if he was allowed.
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