Moncrieff in Ukraine: People in Kyiv 'attempting to live normally, but balancing with caution'.
He said the city is doing what it can to keep normality."People are attempting to live normally, but balancing that with a bit of caution," he said."They're still going about their business, the street lights there were repaired in December."You could still feel a growing sense of anxiety there last week, in the build up to this week."Sean said the situation can change from week to week.
"One of the alerts we experienced came in the middle of the night, which apparently is very unusual - that hasn't really happened before. "A lot of Kyivans we were speaking to thought maybe that's an indication of what might be to come over the next few days and weeks"."The train we took was actually one of dozens," he said."When we got close to the Polish border our train was stuck in a queue of trains - we were actually six hours late getting in - because Polish passport control was pretty much overwhelmed with Ukrainians.
"It had been said to us that it became the pattern that whenever a bomb fell, and there was damage done, that people would go out on the streets to clean it up as quickly as possible because they wanted things to be back as soon as possible - or as normal as they could make it," he added.
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