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Mr Ix Shen, 50, a former Mediacorp actor, has lived in the Podil district in Kyiv for the past four months with his wife, a Ukrainian to whom he has been married for seven years.

Speaking to ST in a virtual interview on Feb 24 from his balcony, he gave an account of what life has been like in the Ukraine capital since Russian forces invaded the country that same day.