that is still leaving short of 2 million who have stayed. we had a 35 hour curfew this week we thought it was quiet before, it was a deathly silence during that day and a half, the streets were completely empty, there was no traffic, and it was a nervous time, punctuated by the sound of distant explosions. those who have stayed, you see people grabbing a shopping bag, heading out, some shops are open, but very limited stock, pharmacies and a few other places are still open, people still need medicines, and of course, as ever, you have military checkpoints, barricades, armed volunteers, soldiers and digging trenches in places where they weren t before, piling sandbags where children once played, for example. this is a city still on guard, still in defensive mode, and the resolve is deep to hold. president biden will urge china not to provide russia with military equipment for its war
as russia certainly experiences more losses in its advances are frustrated by ukrainian resistance and defence systems, but people are angry and the question many are asking is, ok, if there is going to be a peace deal, what are we going to get? if we re going to sit at a table president zelensky and president putin have both said they are willing to do, why are we engaging with the main aggressor in this war? the numbers leaving has gone up, at the moment, more than half have left, more than 2 million people. that is still leaving short of 2 million who have stayed. we had a 35 hour curfew this week we thought it was quiet before, it was a deathly silence during that day and a half, the streets were completely empty, there was no traffic, and it was a nervous time, punctuated by the sound of distant explosions. those who have stayed, you see people grabbing a shopping bag, heading out,