In this Kyiv coffee shop, the threat of nuclear annihilation is a joke
Life goes on in the Ukrainian capital, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin steps up the nuclear rhetoric and sends hundreds of thousands of troops back to the frontline.
Kyiv | Close your eyes inside central Kyiv’s Milkbar Cafe and you might forget the country is under threat of nuclear annihilation.
Families, friends, students and soldiers chit-chat day and night over cups of hot coffee. Only evening curfew, or sirens, interrupt the merriment.
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Misha Zelinsky is a Fulbright Scholar, a former assistant national secretary Australian Workers' Union, and expert associate at the National Security College.
