Daily Maverick | 13.10.2026 02:54
I am in Kyiv and the first thing I have to say out loud: THERE ARE NO RUSSIANS HERE. Zero, Niks, Zlich, Klum. Nada. And I love it. I do not like Russians at all. They are bombing Kyiv and the other parts of Ukraine non-stop. I have heard explosions all week, literally every few hours. Yesterday, on Saturday afternoon, I was walking in the city centre and a ballistic missile was shot down directly above where I and a bunch of people were standing. I must have jumped a metre in the air. So did everyone else on the street. One never gets used to this evil. It is loud, stressful and very scary.