For more than a month, Larysa has left daily voicemails for a TODAY Parents reporter, detailing what life is like in Kyiv as Russians continue to bomb the city.
"I’m going to sleep but before that I’m going to send you a message. I guess near 20 or 30 minutes ago was rather big shelling of Kyiv. I know that one commercial center with a lot of stores now destroyed. It’s far away from me, but I heard sound and feel — and felt, and felt shaking of exploding .
"Sound of shelling was even enough to ruin we had a walk with my mom. It’s really strange to live with that — waiting of shelling, shooting and missile attack. Before war I didn’t like to watch scary movie. I can’t watch it ... Now, I am watching war video and I have no emotions. I don’t know why. "Near 2 p.m. was destroyed one missile, but pieces of that missile fell down near one building and like, it’s not but it’s building with apartments. I don’t know how to explain it right. It’s I guess near 16, it has near 16
"Sorry, not 16, nine floor building with apartments that most part, most part of apartments have no windows now. I am still shocked. I think that I live a strange reality, you know? Today was 25th day of war, and I understood that before war I didn’t like to watch scary movie. I can’t watch it. It was so uncomfortable for me, all that blood and everything what can be doing with human body. It made me felt very bad. Now, I am watching war video and I have no emotions. I don’t know why.
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