Russia’s new shelling tactics deepen suffering in Ukraine
Ukrainians are losing more sleep, shopping for food is becoming harder and travel is often fraught with risk and delays.
Kyiv, Ukraine – When Olena Krakovska is at work selling tools for manicures from a small shop on the basement floor of a shopping centre in central Kyiv, she doesn’t hear or see much.
“I’m already in a bomb shelter. Air raid or not, I’m at work,” the 42-year-old single mother of two boys told Al Jazeera.
Outside there are regular wailing air raid sirens, red-and-white explosions of Russian drones hit by Ukrainian interceptors, gong-like thuds and white plumes of smoke swelling in the sky.
But Kyiv authorities stop the movement of subway trains across the Dnipro during air raids – and crowds of frustrated commuters spend hours in subway stations or nearby.