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Jill Biden, Bono and Trudeau: the embrace of the world in Kiev

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Jill Biden, Bono and Trudeau: the embrace of the world in Kiev

Kiev at war. Visiting heads of state, rock stars in solidarity concert, on the flags of the embassies that reopen, parades of armored cars. It never stops, the Ukrainian capital. Moscow threatens to reserve her the favor of a shower of missiles “in the decision-making centers” if she dares to strike Russia with Western weapons; and they strike anyway, in Belgorod there is not a day that some warehouse or farmhouse is not on fire, but the world has put Kiev on the agenda with the red circle: to visit, and as soon as possible.

Yesterday – full spring and tulips, families out and about with children on bikes and an air of normality despite the more frequent alarms than usual – in the subway station a stone’s throw from Majdan here Bono between the tracks with the microphone in hand. The rock star sings the U2 classics in a poignant, acoustic version, accompanied by the guitarist of the band The Edge. “With or without you”, as in the stadiums with lighters lit, and “Desire” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, from a massacre in his Ireland to those of which he saw the vestiges, the stumps of burnt concrete that three months ago they were the palaces of Borodyanka, Irpin and Bucha: “People in Ukraine are not only fighting for their freedom, but for all of us who love freedom,” he says, and here he is in meditation in Borodyanka where he reads a poem; here he is in Bucha, in the garden of the church transformed into a mass grave.

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It will also be a wounded capital, with the horses of Friesland and the sandbags in the middle of the avenues, but there is a great traffic of official visits, of heads of state not announced but in solidarity, expected and welcome. Yesterday there was also the Canadian premier Justin Trudeauand he too made the excursion into the horror of war.

You have to go 5 kilometers from the outskirts, to Irpin and then up along the route of the crimes committed by the Russians, to see firsthand what it is. Trudeau did it with the mayor of Irpin as a guide, Oleksander Markushyn. Then she met Zelensky who between a G7 and Bono had to carve out a space also for the president of the Bundestag, Barbel Bas: met the premier Denys Shmyhal but it could not be snubbed after the German quarrel with Frank Walter Steinmeier e Olaf Scholz. A super-compressed agenda, however: Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic was also there, also from Zelensky.

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