From their top-floor flat Vidas and Andželika Micuta, a Lithuanian couple, can watch the soldiers patrol on the other side of the fenced-off stream that separates their country from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
“It used to feel nice here, because you don’t have cars driving past and no other noise when you live so close to Russia’s border,” Andželika said. “But clearly this feeling has changed.”
Her husband, a carpenter, previously spent months at a time outside Lithuania, fitting out cruise ships in yards worldwide. But after Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in February, “it no longer felt right to be far away from my family”, he said, so he found work locally.
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