Deep beneath the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city of #Kharkiv, a duo of puppeteers are holding performances for children forced to take shelter from Russian shelling in the city's metro stations, while across town a poet reads verses to a small crowd in an underground bunker. Both are ways of providing much-needed distractions from the #bombs falling above, while also keeping performance art alive during these uncertain times for Kharkiv's residents.

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