"And I had expected, before I came here, to see a country completely devastated by war. I think that’s the media coverage in Europe and in the United States, is of the battlefields, the missiles, the suffering. And I was expecting to, even in Kyiv, and in Kharkiv, to see that side of the war. And of course, I haven’t.

It’s been far more normal. And I think that’s the thing that has struck me, is the normalcy of people’s lives. People are just getting on with their lives as they have to do. They go to work, they go shopping, they deal with their families...

So there’s a degree of normalcy that I was not expecting. What else has struck me as interesting since I’ve been here is the strength of the people. It sounds a bit of a platitude. But I have heard nobody, not a single person in two months, talk about the possibility that Ukraine could lose this war."

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