For the environment in Lviv. The war is in the pockets, not everywhere at the same time. In Lviv (there is) a strange combination of awareness – war can occur at any time and (it is still) absolute calm.
In the areas between air raid sirens, which usually do not result in a real rocket strike in Lviv, people are living their lives as normally as they can.
About how the locals behave. The sirens go out, some pedestrians we see walking on the street, look up and then continue unattended. some mix quickly in buildings they did not intend to enter
There is no panic, just realistic steps to find some sense of security just in case.
In contrast to war and family life. The signs of war greet you as you enter the city. Check the points with soldiers with guns passed to the chest and improvised barriers.
In a local park, families play with young children and dogs walk around. But near a grass in the park, there are some stairs that seem to go straight down to the ground. These stairs lead to old warehouses reinforced with concrete.
When the sirens sound, some families stir closer to the warehouses. No one seems to be coming in.
What else?
Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking U.S. official to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this weekend on her unannounced trip to Kyiv. Pelosi’s office announced Sunday that the speaker was leading an official congressional delegation to Ukraine – the first since the Russian-led invasion of the country on February 24. Zelensky shared a video of his meeting with the delegation on Sunday and thanked the United States for its support to Ukraine against Russian aggression. In the video, Pelosi seems to say to Zelensky: “We are visiting you to thank you for your fight for freedom, that we are on the border of freedom and that your fight is a fight for all. And so our commitment is to I’m there for you until the race is over. “ But the visit comes as Russia’s violent war enters a new phase, without end. Here is the latest: The evacuation route stopped. The evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine has been suspended until Monday, the Mariupol City Council announced on Sunday, citing “security reasons”. The city council said in a post on Telegram that the evacuation will resume at 8 am local time near a shopping center in Mariupol. The announcement came hours after Zelensky announced that the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol was under way. Zelensky said later Sunday that, for the first time, the vital corridor for evacuating civilians from the factory was operational, adding that more than 100 civilians had been evacuated. But the group came under fire again on Sunday night, according to a Ukrainian soldier in Mariupol who spoke to Ukrainian television. Thousands of war crimes are being investigated. Ukraine’s attorney general said her office was opening new cases of alleged war crimes by Russian forces, with a total of 9,158 criminal cases “involving purely war crimes.” Prosecutor Iryna Venediktova told Ukrainian television: “We have already identified specific war criminals,” adding, “There are 15 people in the Kiev region, for example; 10 of them in Bucha. We hold them responsible for torture, rape and looting.” Ukrainian prosecutors last week named 10 Russian soldiers as suspects in various crimes in Butsa. Ready for the big game. Last week, in response to Zelensky’s calls, a group of 40 nations gathered from the United States in Germany agreed to rationalize and speed up arms deliveries to Ukraine. “We must move at the speed of war,” said Secretary of Defense Lloyd. Austin, who met with Zelensky in Kyiv last week with Foreign Minister Antony Blinken. The US House of Representatives passed a law Thursday that would allow Biden to use a World War II-era law, known as the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, to quickly supply arms to Ukraine on credit. This law was originally created to assist forces fighting Nazi Germany and reflects the urgent need in Congress to support the Ukrainian armed forces. President Joe Biden also called on Congress for a $ 33 billion additional funding bill to help Ukraine in the coming months. The president outlined a proposal that would further pressure Russian oligarchs over the war in Ukraine, including the use of money from their confiscated assets to fund Ukraine’s defense.
