Mr. Zelensky’s “without you” speech, which spurns Russia and Mr. Putin, has become this country’s wartime motto. With every new barrage, the Kremlin is putting those words to an increasingly severe test. Ukraine, thus far, has yet to flinch
The waitress smiled apologetically as she discussed the breakfast offerings at Idealist, a popular café in one of Kyiv’s most affluent neighbourhoods. The power was on, so they could make anything that involved a frying pan or an electric kettle.Several would-be customers sighed and decided to leave, packing up their laptops, after learning of the less-than-ideal conditions for remote working. Others shrugged and decided to stay.
Thursday was the first morning without hot water for showers. But that was nothing to complain about: The fact we had running water at all – of any temperature – made these accommodations relatively luxurious in a city where much of the population was still lining up to fill plastic jugs with water from pumps in the city’s parks.
“Do you still believe that we are one people? Do you still think that you can frighten, crush and bend us into submission?” Mr. Zelensky asked, referring to Kremlin propaganda that portrays Ukrainians and Russians as one nation divided by history. “Read my lips: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without lights or without you? Without you. Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst – for us these are less frightening and less deadly than your friendship and brotherhood.
Our team of three – photographer Anton Skyba, driver Sergiy Maistruk and myself – had earlier spent part of the weekend reliving something like the anxious first days of the pandemic, pushing a pair of grocery carts around a massive superstore. We filled them with canned goods we hoped we’d never have to eat and wet wipes we worried might soon be needed for bathing.
Adding to the sense of anxiety in the city, many banks weren’t working Thursday, so most transactions had to be done in cash. Even if you went into a branch, tellers couldn’t let you withdraw money or exchange U.S. dollars because their own computers were disconnected from their internal systems.
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