Straight from Lviv. How do people live in this city after 3 years of war?
This war is very misleading. We expect ruins, scarcity, misfortune and crying. On the spot we get active cafes, full shelves in stores, laughter, traffic on the streets, a gushing fountain in front of the opera, i.e. a normal life.
In Lviv, people get into cars every day and patiently stand in traffic jams going to work. They also get on buses and, mainly at the phone, move from the edge to the city center. They shop, afternoon and weekend plans, talk on the phone, visit friends. The only novelty, but not very painful, is a curfew from 24:00 to 6:00. Thanks to the silence on the streets, you sleep much better.
Lviv has not changed significantly since 2012, i.e. since the Polish Football Championship Organization with the Polish organization. What was renovated then (station, area around the market), it is just beginning to fall apart, but not because of the war, but no subsequent renovations. Also new are the markings of places where the basements were transformed into shelters.
Expensive cars, quarrels about Russian
The war appeared in Lviv barely a few times – Russia sent rockets towards the city, whose parts fell around the car workshop, power plant and one of the tenement houses near the city center. The Roman Szuchewycz Museum (Chief Commander of the UPA) was also destroyed. None of them hit the chosen purpose (infrastructure of the city), which confirms the thesis about the low precision of the Russians. Destruction has been repaired without a trace, or they are repaired.
A total of seven people were killed, about 50 people were wounded. Thousands of Ukrainians from the east of the country came to Lviv. Ukrainians from Lviv tolerate the Russian language in the mouth of their countrymen from the east of the country. This matter is loudly commented on the streets, on buses, in private homes. There are sharp exchanges of sentences and even calling the police, because a lot of Lviv families have already buried a loved one in the Mars field (military lamp cemetery), where, according to the cemetery administration, funerals take place almost every day.
A lot of expensive cars appeared on the streets of Lviv: the latest models of Tesla, Audi, BMW, Range Rover and Dodge. Prices of apartments and their rental went up. Hiring a studio in Lviv costs 18,000 a month Hryvien (about PLN 1620) – the most expensive in Ukraine, but unexpectedly the price fell in 2025 by about 2 percent. And how much is ordinary, everyday life? Infotuba.pl wrote about this and about Polish products
