- Oleh Ocheretyanyi isn’t buying Russian President Vladimir Putin’s argument that Monday’s bombardment of central Kyiv was revenge for Saturday’s attack on the bridge connecting Russia to Crimea.
- Ocheretyanyi believed that at least part of the reason for the missile barrage was the appointment of Sergey Surovikin, notorious for his brutality in Syria, as the new commander of Moscow’s forces in Ukraine. “
- On the walls of these buildings, flying shrapnel and pieces of asphalt carved deep scars.
- “I live not far from here, and when I heard the explosion, I headed to the corridor that fences me off from the windows with three walls,” Ocheretyanyi said. “
- As at the beginning of the war, underground stations became shelters, where thousands of people took refuge.
- Some brought pets, some stayed with toddlers.