Making visitors smile while the war goes on

In downtown Kyiv, you’ll find a handful of people dressed as storybook characters and superheroes, posing for photos with tourists in Ukraine. The World’s Patti Daniels has this postcard on one man trying to earn a little extra cash while making people smile.

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