Cafe Zigzag News Today

hello and welcome to unspun world, the programme where we get the in—depth views of the bbc�*s experts. this is the heart of kyiv in ukraine. it was a lot quieter here when i was last in the city, before the russian invasion, and although there havent been any attacks on kyiv recently, there is still a curfew in place and every now and then, you hear the sound of air raid sirens. there have been reports of russian nuclear missiles being moved by train deep inside russian territory,...

To the wall, and regular, disturbing hints that russia might resort to using its nuclear weapons. it is all a recipe for disaster, and we cant yet tell how disastrous it might turn out to be. still, i went to the well—known cafe zigzag in the centre of kyiv. the mostly young people there did not seem nervous at all. with me was the bbc�*s hugo bachega, who is currently based in kyiv. i asked him to tell me what he thought. there is this sense of weird normal, in the sense that restaurants ar...