FINANCIAL TIMES: The temperature outside is minus 12 degrees and the winter sun glints off the snow. But in an ex-military tent in the centre of what is normally Kiev’s four-lane main avenue Khreshchatyk, a 25-year-old anti-government protester named Andriy, from Lviv in western Ukraine, is tucking into borscht, meat cutlets and pasta…
The motley tents each have stoves with chimneys spewing wood smoke into the icy air; piles of firewood stand outside. Many have signs with the names of their cities – Lviv or Zhytomyr in the west, Kremenchuk in the centre, or Donetsk in the east.
Ms Alexandrovna’s tent is typical. In the corner stands a small mountain of bags of pasta, rice and cans. Visitors drop in every few minutes, bringing more supplies in carrier bags. “We don’t have to buy anything, people just bring it to us,” she says… (more)
