It was the kind of snow you see in films, white and perfect and deep, the cars moving slowly along white roads, the people coming out of their houses in the morning or stopping on the High Street to notice the light.

NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

Hundreds of soldiers are helping Kiev's citizens to dig out cars buried in snow and the city is struggling to get public transport moving again.

BBC: Ukraine army tackles snow chaos amid Kiev emergency

In part because there are now more of them, the police are moving away from rapid-response methods, where coppers wait for the phone to ring and then race out in their cars.

ECONOMIST: Policing