Customers pay anything from £3.20 for a plain croissant to £4.50 for "limited edition" bakes - prices which David accepts are outside of the bracket of "everyday products".
"Most of those who stayed in Mariupol or returned, did so to help their elderly parents or their sick grandparents, or because of their flat," he tells me over the phone after midnight so no-one will overhear.The biggest preoccupation in Mariupol is holding on to your home, as most of the property damaged in the Russian bombardment has been demolished, and the cost of living and unemployment has surged.
"I'd say 95% of all talk in the city is about property: how to claim it back, how to sell it. You'll hear people talk about it while queuing to buy some bread, on your way to a chemist, in the food market, everywhere," he says.Crimea has been under occupation since Vladimir Putin annexed the peninsula in 2014, when Russia's war in Ukraine began.Iryna decided to remain, also to care for an elderly relative but also because she did not want to leave "her beautiful home".
All signs of Ukrainian identity have been banned in public, and Iryna says she cannot speak Ukrainian in public any more, "as you never know who can tell the authorities on you".Children at nursery school in Crimea are told to sing the Russian anthem every morning, even the very youngest. All the teachers are Russian, most of them wives of soldiers who have moved in from Russia.
Iryna occasionally puts on her traditional, embroidered
top when she has video calls with friends elsewhere on the peninsula."The bottom line is that we've got to be ready in case things don't happen the way we want," Hassett said of the expected China talks. "Because if we have cannons without cannonballs, then we can't fight a war."
"We have to have a steel industry that's ready for American defence," he said.The Sunday Times says the government has held "highly sensitive" talks about buying combat aircraft
The paper calls it "the biggest development in the UK's deterrent since the Cold War". Sir Keir Starmerthat the moment has arrived to "transform" how Britain is defended. Writing in the paper, the prime minister says Monday's defence review will restore war-fighting readiness as the central purpose of the armed forces.