Five girls stood still in the freezing December drizzle in Ukraine's capital as a metronome counted a minute of silence, honoring the victims of Russia's invasion.
They were holding banners urging passersby to stop and pay their respects at 9:00 am — part of an official, but rarely observed, daily ritual in war-torn Ukraine.
The crowd pouring out of Kyiv's central Golden Gate metro station mostly walked on by.
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