A nuncio’s year in Ukraine
One of Kyiv’s 1,000 emergency centres that provide for citizens after power outages
Alamy/AP, Hiroto Sekiguchi
Life in Kyiv has become so difficult that those who remain in the city have almost lost connection with ‘normal life’
The energy minister, Denys Shmyhal, explains to me that to install a protective layer for the main civilian infrastructure takes about two years, and in many cases the work was delayed, starting only at the beginning of 2024, when it should have started at least a year and a half earlier. Ukraine has no anti-missile defence systems or ammunition. The nuns who live in the nunciature have been saying for several weeks that you can no longer hear defensive missiles, only the explosions of incoming missiles.
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