One month into war, Zelensky is done with niceties

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In a grinding war such as the one in Ukraine, one learns how to read subtle changes in the public mood. So it was on Thursday — one month since Russian forces invaded and just as NATO leaders pledged continued support to Ukraine — that I spotted outside my apartment windows, on the edges of Lviv’s old city, construction workers in high-visibility jackets and tall yellow ladders busily boarding up the neighboring church’s magnificent stained glass windows.