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A precious moment in time of war: Flowers for a wife and daughter coming home to Ukraine
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Despite hardships brought by war, flowers fill Ukraine’s cities. Deep purple petunias and yellow rock roses burst out of planters that line Kyiv’s backroads and boulevards. - photo by AP video shot by Anton Shtuka
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On his way to the Kyiv train station to greet his wife and daughter returning from Poland to Ukraine, Oleksander Tryfonov made a stop. He bought two red roses from one of a half-dozen flower shops lining a dimly lit underpass — something beautiful for the two most precious people in his life. “I haven’t seen them for two years,” Tryfonov, a burly 45-year-old driver said of his family.