After Russian missile strike, owners of Ukrainian coffee shop pledge to rebuild

NPR | By Hanna Palamarenko

Published June 1, 2026 at 4:47 AM EDT

After a large-scale Russian missile strike hit downtown Kyiv, the owners of a coffee shop that opened just hours earlier were already serving coffee again and planning to rebuild.

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