After enduring a brutal month-long Russian assault earlier this year, residents of Kyiv had enjoyed a period of relative peace and security. That reprieve was violently interrupted a little after 8 A.M. today.
After enduring a brutal month-long Russian assault earlier this year, residents of Kyiv had enjoyed a period of relative peace and security.from the suburbs in April, concentrating instead on offensives in the east and south, and no lethal ordnance whistling out of the sky had terrorized the Ukrainian capital since June. Businesses in Kyiv had reopened, and people had resumed going out to bars and restaurants, gathering in parks, living their lives.
A Ukrainian medic was wrapping gauze around an older woman, who was wearing a winter coat and gripping a towel, which was wet and red. “She has two head wounds,” he said. Blood seeped through the gauze, onto one of her cheeks, and it had coated the front of her shirt and run onto her pants. But the woman, whose name was Oleksandra, was laughing. “She said that Halloween is coming up and she’s already putting on her scary costume,” the medic said.
Rescuers with crowbars and power saws filed into the brick building even as residents, some wearing bathrobes and slippers, were still coming out. On the fifth floor, a young couple surveyed their apartment, which had been destroyed. Their daughter, a sixteen-year-old named Khrystyna, sat in the doorway, crying quietly and bleeding from a small cut on her forehead. She told me that she’d been asleep in her room when the missile hit. “The wall moved and pushed me out of my bed,” she said.
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