A new Home!
Buying a Flat in Kyiv’s City Center
This is chapter written by my wife (Natasha Sennett) from our book “Accidental Ukrainians being serialized on Substack.
COVID took its toll on travelers and took away the desire or the ability to travel freely between the countries along with it. Our three-bedroom apartment served no purpose as we came to realize my family is unlikely to come for a visit any time soon. Belarus closed the borders with Ukraine and getting out turned into a major hassle with special permits needed from the “leader” himself or the “government”. The political situation there hadn’t changed either and had no signs of improving in the near future. Unidentified men in balaklavas continued roaming people’s apartments, taking away “the suspects of 2020 election protests” in front of their families, labeling each one “a terrorist” with no rights for attorneys or any such democratic nonsense, resulting in unlawful imprisonment of almost a half its thinking population, or anyone with ability to think, and, God forbid, speak their mind. The other “half” was either guarding the prisoners or shaking the guns in their hands like someone would the car keys to subdue the unruly thinking types into submission before the “leader”, but first, before the apes with guns and absence of any moral compass. Live and let live wasn’t, isn’t, and is not going to be on Belarusian horizon until Lu and Pu are…
