Community rug making workshopFLORENCE Looking for a different kind of community involvement? Consider coming down to the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, where Northampton fabric artist Jo Hesse has enlisted volunteer support this month for creating.
Long range missiles. air raid siren wails. that s another air raid siren that s just gone off but, as you can see, people are kind of shrugging it off now. it s a pretty frequent occurrence but a reminder that the threat hasn t disappeared here. a hint of normality is peeping through the roadblocks and police checks. metro stations no longer used as shelters, as the city gradually comes back to life. kyiv is fortified, but fearful. for tamara tkachuk, business is still slow and the trauma deep. translation: it has been frightening here, my hands still tremble now. - this is our country, they have no right to come here and kill us. i m very worried the russians will come back or, worse, that they will wait for us to return and then bomb us from the air. god save us from that.
Gradually comes back to life. kyiv is fortified, but fearful. for tamara tkachuk, business is still slow and the trauma is deep. translation: it has been frightening here, my hands still tremble now. i this is our country, they have no right to come here and kill us. i m very worried the russians will come back or, worse, that they will wait for us to return and then bomb us from the air. god save us from that. for those dug in for the long haul, reminders of the life they left behind two months ago, when russia thought it could barge into kyiv with little resistance. and when ukraine s residents became its defenders. mark lowen, bbc news, kyiv. the headlines on bbc news.
People are kind of shrugging it off now. it s a pretty frequent occurrence but a reminder that the threat hasn t disappeared here. a hint of normality is peeping through the roadblocks and police checks. metro stations no longer used as shelters, as the city gradually comes back to life. kyiv is fortified, but fearful. for tamara tkachuk, business is still slow and the trauma deep. translation: it has been frightening here, my hands still tremble now. i this is our country, they have no right to come here and kill us. i m very worried the russians will come back or, worse, that they will wait for us to return and then bomb us from the air. god save us from that. for those dug in for the long haul, reminders of the life they left behind two months ago, when russia thought it could barge into kyiv with little resistance.