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Mr Ix Shen, 50, a former Mediacorp actor, has lived in the Podil district in Kyiv for the past four months with his wife, a Ukrainian to whom he has been married for seven years.

Speaking to ST in a virtual interview on Feb 24 from his balcony, he gave an account of what life has been like in the Ukraine capital since Russian forces invaded the country that same day.

Highlights (click/tap above):

00:42 Why Ix Shen is not having any evacuation plans

03:22 Shen describes the mood in Kyiv

05:25 Shen describes the sounds of invasion

08:04 Why Ukrainians are so resilient amid this adversity

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