Kyiv's mayor says two-thirds of the city's residents have returned after fleeing at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Seconds after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, the window to Kyrylo Krasnokutsky’s apartment in Kyiv was blown out by a nearby explosion. While his friends and family quickly packed up and left, he stayed on two weeks longer as Vladimir Putin’s troops bombarded the city and its suburbs. Reluctantly, realizing that not one of his circle remained in the capital, Krasnokutsky left for the Carpathian region in western Ukraine.
Last Tuesday, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that nearly two-thirds of the city’s 3.5 million residents were back in the capital, though some recently returned locals question that assessment. “People are returning,” Olga Khomenko, the CEO of a game development company who spent much of the war in western Ukraine, told Yahoo News. “Everyone is smiling,” she added — all the more, say locals, since the Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision music competition this weekend. The band's, for the song “Stefania,” is a defiant chronicle of love for the motherland despite what Russian forces have left behind in Ukraine.
Back in the city, things aren’t as bad, though some sections still feel “very apocalyptic,” said Drazhenko. But many are coming back to Kyiv. Dasha Stokoz, a project manager in the arts who fled to Germany in March and who is now eight months pregnant, wanted to return to give birth to her baby in Ukraine. When several countries“They relocated from Kyiv weeks before the war began. So if they’re returning here, they must know something,” she told Yahoo News.On Friday, Stokoz was reunited with her husband and family in Kyiv. “I am finally home,” she told Yahoo News hours after her arrival.
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