One Friday evening, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there’s a saxophonist crooning on the cobblestone street corner, families go out to dinner. Teenagers laugh in the streets with their friends, and in the main square more than a dozen people gather around a guitarist and dance as fluffy snowflakes fall to the ground.
This city, though it is under constant threat of Russian missile attacks, has become a refuge for many Ukrainians fleeing the fighting dominating the east and south and looking for some semblance of normalcy. According to the Lviv Regional State Administration, the region is currently hosting around 250,000 refugees from other
