Katrin Göring-Eckardt supported the fight for a free Ukraine even before the war. Now she is back in Kyiv for the first time since the beginning of the war. She looks at how people are learning to live with the new conditions: eating without lights, going to concerts, being home before curfew.
Katrin Goering-Eckardt dances. She claps her hands in the air, closes her eyes, jumps. Around her are young women in snake-patterned flared pants, with bird tattoos on their necks and mobile phones in the air. You are at a concert by the band Zhadan i Sobaky. The singer walks across the bar to be closer to the audience, who are singing along loudly. The walls of the pub are wood paneled, Jägermeister is written in neon letters at the bar and a flag of the local AC/DC fan club is behind the stage.
Shortly before the concert, the lights go out twice for a few seconds. People don’t let that bother them. Power outages are normal in Kyiv. Normality in this pub with the motto: Born to be free.
Source: Stern
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