Photos reveal the grim reality of life in Kyiv's underground as Ukrainians take cover during Russia's invasion.
Ivan Karachun said he left with his wife and two young children to escape Russia's bombing of Kyiv.A residential apartment building in Kyiv's south-west was hit by a missile last Saturday, killing two people, and Russian forces have stepped up shelling in crowded urban parts of the country, including in the eastern city of Kharkiv.His two children, both aged under three, are oblivious to the invasion, which has put him at ease, he said.
"It's really terrifying," she said, from the border town of Chernivtsi, not far from Romania and Moldova. "Probably we will be able to cross the border soon. But I don't actually want to go — to leave the country — because my family's here and my friends are here. I don't feel well about this.Kateryna is trying to get her son Dima to safety.
She said it was heartbreaking to see bombing destroying Ukraine's biggest cities, and new and expectant mothers forced into hospital basements amid the shelling. "I cannot stop crying, when you see all those videos or photos that your friends and relatives send you," she said."Now they are destroying our natural cultural heritage ... just to demoralise people, I think."I know for sure that we will rebuild."
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