As missiles fall, Kyiv battles for a few hours’ sleep
Story: Evening in Kiev.
Like Clockwork, 27 -year -old Daria Slavytska is preparing a stroller.
Inside – a yoga mat, blanket and food.
Several times a week, he is moving towards the subway of the city of Ukraine with his two -year -old son Emil.
Not to capture a train, but a few hours of sleep – safely underground – while waiting above the air strikes.
:: Daria Slavytska, Kyiv resident
“Less frequently, about once a month, once a month – this was six months ago. Now we come here two or three times a week.”
Over the last two months, Russia has released the drone and missile attacks rising to Kiev as part of the summer attack.
The attacks exhausted 3.7 million inhabitants of the city, such as Slavytska, and left them on the sidelines.
He remembers when Emil heard the sirens.
Air attack on his phone would send the little child to tremor seizures – “I am afraid of corridors, corridors, mother”. A doctor advised him to close them.
In April, a strike destroyed a housing building a few kilometers from Slavytska’s apartment block.
He says the threat of losing his house is suddenly more real.
Now, he gets identity documents underground.
And he bought a lighter stroller to make it easier to enter the station.
“I don’t remember the exact figures. If we all remember everything we’ve been going to die a long time ago – so we just sat here, we just sat here. We went home after 5 am and we slept a little.
During the nights they spend on the subway, Slavytska focuses by one of the columns covering the pieces with pink yoga matı Emil.
However, considering how often they slept underground, he began to buy a bed that would be more comfortable.
A Danish retailer told Reuters to request swelling beds, camping deposits and sleep mats.
:: Ruslan, Sales Manager, Jysk
“The biggest leap in sales was recorded in KYIV in the last three weeks of June. The demand increased by 20-25 percent.”
The number of people who took refuge in one of Kiev’s 46 underground stations, like Slavytska, rapidly increased rapidly after the large -scale bombings hit the city five times in June.
The metro system recorded 165,000 nights during that month.
The press service told Reuters more than twice the visits in May and about five times the number in June last year.
Kiev’s city military administration told Reuters that more people went to the shelter because of the “scale and deadlyness of the attacks.
Strikes killed 78 residents in the first half of the year and injured more than 400, and now sleeping in a shelter has become the norm.
However, some take more measures such as Kateryna storozhuk.
Storozhuk, which is not shelter within three kilometers of his house, invested over $ 2,000 in a “Life Capsule”.
It is a reinforced steel box that can withstand falling concrete plates.
He sleeps every night.
:: Katerynna storozhuk, Kyiv resident
“The capsule protects me with debris and fear. It makes it possible to sleep with a safe cabin.”
Storozhuk knows that the capsule will not rely on a direct missile kick.
However, the deprivation of the attacks caused intense stress.
“I was worried and fearful and I couldn’t control it anymore. I was just sleepless because of fear.”
