Kyiv’s main street, Khreshchatyk, rippled with anxiety as people checked their phones. The only unusual thing is that you can’t find a taxi in Kyiv,” one resident complained, as air raid sirens wailed. Others clung to routine, with irritation. People carrying luggage took shelter in the subway, unsure of where to go. She rushed to her balcony and realized the sounds that had woken her weren’t fireworks.įarther from the border, a morning commute transformed into chaos, with lines of cars waiting at fuel stations or fleeing from the gray and drizzly capital, Kyiv. “Today I had the worst sunrise in my life,” said another Kharkiv resident, who gave her name only as Sasha. By the end of the day, many of the capital’s residents had taken shelter deep underground, in Kyiv’s metro system. Smoke rose from cities, even ones well away from a long-running separatist conflict in the country’s east. The missile left a nearby computer and teacup shrouded with dust, instant artifacts of Europe’s latest crisis.Īt dawn on Thursday, Ukrainians’ uneasy efforts at normality were shattered. He jumped from the couch and ran to wake his mother, and something exploded behind him. I realized it sounded like artillery,” Shcherbakov said. A Russian attack, after weeks of rhetoric and warning signs, had hit home. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The missile fragment pierced the ceiling of Mikhail Shcherbakov’s apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
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