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Gunfire, explosions close to Kyiv but people are calm: S'porean ex-actor Ix Shen

Five days after Russia invaded the country he has called home for the last four months, life has settled into an uneasy pattern for Singaporean Ix Shen.

"When the airstrikes first started the fear was strong. By now, that fear is no longer there. It is tense, everyone knows these are hard times, but the morale here remains high," said the 50-year-old former actor, who lives in the Podil district in Kyiv with his wife, a Ukrainian.

Over the weekend, there were air strikes followed by loud explosions and flashes of light that lit up the sky.

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