In recent weeks, life in the Ukranian capital Kyiv has been relatively normal.

Streets, cafes, restaurants and beer gardens have been packed as residents made the most of the northern summer. The heart of the city bustled with locals getting on with life as best they can. 

But at the weekend, war returned to Kyiv and air raid sirens rang through the capital once more.

Believed to be retaliation for the EU granting Ukraine candidate status, Russian forces fired long-range missiles from the Caspian Sea hitting at least two residential buildings killing one and injuring six others.

Today on Please Explain, foreign affairs correspondent Anthony Galloway, who was in Kyiv as the attack took place, joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the war.

In recent weeks, life in the Ukranian capital Kyiv has been relatively normal.
Streets, cafes, restaurants and beer gardens have been packed as residents made the most of the northern summer. The heart of the city bustled with locals getting on with life as best they can. 
But at the weekend, war returned to Kyiv and air raid sirens rang through the capital once more.
Believed to be retaliation for the EU granting Ukraine candidate status, Russian forces fired long-range missiles from the Caspian Sea hitting at least two residential buildings killing one and injuring six others.
Today on Please Explain, foreign affairs correspondent Anthony Galloway, who was in Kyiv as the attack took place, joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the war.

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The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

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