Muscovites go about their daily lives with little major disruption. But the war’s effects are evident — in the stores, at the movies and in the increasingly repressive environment.
“What a horror,” said a Ukrainian retiree, as plumes of smoke rose from a central Kyiv street. “Again!” she said. “This is now happening all the time.”
While Vladimir V. Putin boasts that Russia is holding up under Western sanctions, his central bank chief and the mayor of Moscow warned that the worst is yet to come.