Ukrainians react with mixed feelings to Vladimir Putin’s wartime rhetoric in his nearly two-hour speech yesterday. “You see people leaving big cities because of tensions,” says European journalist Geert Jan Hahn from the western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod.
The reactions Hahn records among Ukrainians vary widely. Some shrug and say that Putin can “enter the boom”, others are moving away from big cities. Hahn sees an increase in traffic towards the Hungarian and Slovakian borders. “There are a lot of refugees here,” Hahn says of the border town’s population, whose population has grown significantly in the past year. “There’s tension in the air here.”
“There’s Tension in the Air Here”
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, Ukraine is taking everything into account. “There is a good chance that government buildings in Kiev will be closed tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and that schools will once again provide distance education.”
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Source: BNR
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