'The people in Kyiv are lucky enough to be alive – yes, they’re at the risk of being targeted by a Russian missile any minute and they go to bed afraid not to wake up the next morning, but they’re still alive.'
Now the centre of Kyiv is gradually coming back to life and, despite regular shelling, people are trying to walk, work and live on, supporting the suffocating economy of Ukraine
My name is Gleb, I work as a tech reviewer for one of the oldest and most popular online media brands inRussia The large, low-ceilinged room was full of people lying, sitting, and standing. Some were trying to calm children, others were crying, most, though, were listening to the sounds of shells falling nearby.Everyone in there understood that the shelter could only protect against fragments of missiles. In the case of a direct hit, we’d most likely be buried alive under a collapsed building.
The roads of the city are blocked by concrete blocks, anti-tank hedgehogs, spikes, sandbags or even trams. To get by car from one point of the city to another, even if you’re just travelling a few kilometres, you have to overcome a dozen checkpoints, where the Ukrainian military and volunteers from the territorial defence of Kyiv check documents and inspect cars.supports HTML5 video
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