Day after missile strikes, air-raid sirens send Kyiv residents into shelters

Record ID: 1692699

  • Title: Day after missile strikes, air-raid sirens send Kyiv residents into shelters
  • Date: 11th October 2022
  • Summary: KYIV, UKRAINE (OCTOBER 11, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SITTING ON ESCALATOR STAIRS, TAKING SHELTER IN STATION HALL (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) IT SPECIALIST, MARYNA (NO LAST NAME GIVEN), SAYING: “After the yesterday’s rocket strikes, when I understood that it is alike to what took place on the 24th (February, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion), I got scared. Because we didn’t think it will happen again in the downtown. I was surprised that they (the rocket strikes) didn’t target the infrastructural objects. It is terrorism. You understand that you are not safe at home, even if there are no infrastructural objects nearby. Two walls and a basement will not save you.” PEOPLE TAKING SHELTER IN STATION HALL
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2022 09:05
  • Keywords: Air raid Kyiv Rocket strikes Russian invasion Shelter War in Ukraine
  • Location: KYIV, UKRAINE
  • City: KYIV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001139211102022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Kyivans took shelter in subway station on Tuesday (October 11), as Russia’s widespread air strikes on Ukrainian cities continue.
    Air raid sirens resounded over Kyiv as the morning rush hour was beginning – the same time that Russian missiles struck the day before – largely keeping traffic and pedestrians off the capital’s broad avenues although Metro trains continued operating.
    Commuters on their way to work took shelter in metro stations, some built with massive steel doors during the Soviet era to withstand nuclear attack, where they were joined by local residents, some with children and pets.
    Maryna (no last name given), a 32-year-old IT specialist said yesterday’s rocket strikes reminded her of the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 February.
    “You understand that you are not safe at home, even if there are no infrastructural objects nearby. Two walls and a basement will not save you,” Maryna told Reuters.
    Putin is resorting to the missile barrages to assuage his population after weeks in which Ukrainian troops have retaken huge swaths of the east and south from Russian forces, and to force Kyiv into concessions, she said.
    Russia launched its most widespread air strikes since the start of the Ukraine war on Monday (October 10), raining cruise missiles on busy cities during rush hour and knocking out power and heat, in what President Vladimir Putin called revenge for a blown up bridge.
    (Production: Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey, Felix Hoske, Andrii Pryimachenko)
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