As we talk in the yard, children play football, laughing and shouting. Most of the pre-war population of Bucha has returned, including many who fled Ukraine as refugees. But Natalia worries things could deteriorate again. “You see what Putin’s up to, blaming Ukraine for the Moscow terrorist attack,” she tells me, referring to last month’s attack on the Crocus concert venue. “I think he wants a full war. Full mobilisation.”
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