I hope you and your loved ones remain as safe as possible.
Just days before the recent renewed volley of missile strikes all over the country, I asked my uncle if it would be alright to take a similar route to come see them (from Poland to Lviv). My grandfather was recently evacuated from Mykolaiv after refusing to leave for a long time; I worry that I may not get to see him again if I don't go now, and also intended to stay a while and help at or near the Polish border as needed. My uncle said that it's a bad idea, and that there could still be missile strikes on Lviv. I didn't push it much, knowing they have enough to worry about without adding me to the mix. Just days after, Lviv was struck, proving him right.
Cities are huge. The chances of you being hit is nil. If you do come, you'll help the economy - your rent, your living costs - and the locals appreciate you being here.
I myself understand that and would still want to come, but I don't want to do it at the expense of causing more stress to my family over there. If I insisted on coming to see them now even after my uncle asked me not to, it would be selfish. My grandfather has already been through a ton of stress and illness; I don't want to stress him out about his grandchild possibly getting hurt visiting him on top of everything else. I plan to bring the idea up a bit later, and in the meantime I donate so those would-be living costs should go to the country anyway.
Are all services like card payments, 4G internet etc working for foreigners? Thinking of taking a trip to Kyiv some time in the future. Last time I visited in 2020 and loved the city.
Life here, as far as all the usual is concerned, is normal.
Internet runs just fine, I go swimming every other day to keep fit, supermarkets full of food. Metro runs, I think a few stations are still closed, though, although that could have been so before the war; I wouldn't know. Curfew at 11pm is the main difference. There's a bit of a question now about electricity, because Putin is trying to destroy the electricity supply, but you just gotta roll with these things.
