I was actually a couple of kilometers from this place at the time, on Beresteiskyi Avenue. The windows of the little shop shook from the impact, and the woman working there just gave a bitter smile and said, “Sometimes it’s motorcycles roaring, sometimes it’s Shaheds falling.”
You walk outside like 5 minutes later and can still hear bursts of anti-aircraft fire in the air, but everyone around is completely calm. People are drinking coffee, talking on their phones, going about their business, taking walks, casually heading to the parking lot with their keys dangling from their fingers. It’s Friday, around noon.
Maybe people have simply accepted that this could happen to them one day, and decided to keep living their ordinary lives anyway. Because what else can you do? You cannot spend your days in a shelter, in fact never leaving it now. There aren’t even enough shelters for everyone. Life in Kyiv goes on, in spite of what Russia wants.
Honestly, it makes me deeply respect our people, and I’m proud of them for it.
In Kyiv, cars are burning and bodies of people lie in the streets after Russia struck our capital in broad daylight on a Saturday, clearly aiming to maximize civilian casualties‼️
Mayor Klitschko reports at least 3 killed and 7 injured.
These attacks cannot be normalized. This is state terrorism in the heart of Europe.