In the First Days of War
A dispatch from Kyiv
Residents of Kyiv seek safety in an underground metro station and makeshift air-raid shelter on February 26. Image courtesy of Kyiv City Council, via Wikimedia Commons. Yesterday was my birthday. My girlfriend who has remained in Donetsk all these years always says, “I’m here because someone has to greet the Ukrainian army with flowers and embrace every defender.” This beautiful, unbreakable friend wrote to me yesterday, “I’d like to give you Putin’s balls on a skewer. But they’re not done cooking.”
Later we exchanged some messages (as of 7:57 p.m., February 26, Kyiv still had power, gas, communication lines, and water) and eventually agreed that I should to not half bad: “the removal of Russia from the world”) and a no-fly zone.
