Wise cracks Mykolaiv’s leader uses humour to resist Putin
When the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, ordered his troops to invade Ukraine on 24 February, Vitaliy Kim was still in bed sound asleep. “I was dreaming something, but can’t remember what, and when I woke up, everybody was panicking,” said Kim, the governor of the industrial region of Mykolaiv. “It was frightening. People were asking me what to do now.”
A few frantic hours later, after a Russian missile struck the airport about 15km from his office, Kim, who had
