“Ukraine’s resistance to the invasion has been remarkable, surpassing what many experts expected. Peace, however, remains elusive.” The New Yorker correspondent yaffaesque reports from Kyiv.
Photograph by Wolfgang Schwan / Anadolu Agency / Gettyto receive the best of The New Yorker every day in your in-boxfrom Poland, at the same border crossing that I had used to leave the country two weeks earlier. I was heading against the flow of traffic: a crowd of Ukrainian families—women, children, the elderly—waited in line for their chance to enter Poland. Across the border, in Lviv, a city that wears its Polish and Austrian history with inviting charm, I boarded a night train to Kyiv.
Russia had announced that it was pulling forces back from Kyiv and the surrounding region, a piece of news that was, in part, confirmed by military experts, even as most everyone I spoke to viewed it warily. My first night in Kyiv, I could hear the distant thud of artillery echoing from the outskirts of town. Yet the basic military facts remained true: Russia had tried, and failed, to seize the capital city in the early days of the war, and was now begrudgingly coming around to that reality.
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