Daily Life In Kyiv Means Grabbing The Cat And Heading Underground
Ukrainian soldiers guard the entrance to the bomb shelter. To weed out possible saboteurs, they sometimes ask people to say “palyanitsa,” the word for Ukrainian bread that’s difficult for Russians to pronounce.
Liza, a 23-year-old social-media marketing manager in Kyiv, hears the air-raid sirens about a half-dozen times a day. When she does, she grabs her cat, her documents, some warm clothes and food she’s prepared in advance just in case she has to shelter through meal time, and runs.
Luhansk is Liza’s hometown. She remembers – can’t forget – Russian shelling in June 2014 that hit Luhansk’s state administration building. Eight people were killed and more than 20 seriously injured. “I was 15 at the time and didn’t understand why there were corpses in the park,” she says.
Now Kyiv is Russia’s main target. Liza stays anyway. She lives on the left bank of the city with five friends, two cats and a rabbit. She says she thought about evacuating to Western Ukraine or another country, but it would be too hard to take the animals. “I will never leave my cat,” she says.
forbes.com/sites/bobivry/2022/03/02/daily-life-in-kyiv-means-grabbing-the-cat-and-heading-underground-every-time-russian-bombers-are-spotted/
Ukrainian soldiers guard the entrance to the bomb shelter. To weed out possible saboteurs, they sometimes ask people to say “palyanitsa,” the word for Ukrainian bread that’s difficult for Russians to pronounce.
Liza, a 23-year-old social-media marketing manager in Kyiv, hears the air-raid sirens about a half-dozen times a day. When she does, she grabs her cat, her documents, some warm clothes and food she’s prepared in advance just in case she has to shelter through meal time, and runs.
Luhansk is Liza’s hometown. She remembers – can’t forget – Russian shelling in June 2014 that hit Luhansk’s state administration building. Eight people were killed and more than 20 seriously injured. “I was 15 at the time and didn’t understand why there were corpses in the park,” she says.
Now Kyiv is Russia’s main target. Liza stays anyway. She lives on the left bank of the city with five friends, two cats and a rabbit. She says she thought about evacuating to Western Ukraine or another country, but it would be too hard to take the animals. “I will never leave my cat,” she says.
forbes.com/sites/bobivry/2022/03/02/daily-life-in-kyiv-means-grabbing-the-cat-and-heading-underground-every-time-russian-bombers-are-spotted/
