Capital under attack
It was the sound of an explosion that woke Alyona Tkachenko and her family on Friday morning. Missiles were raining down close to their home in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. “A nearby house caught fire, and there were many victims,” she told Reuters news agency. After the air raid siren ended, the 36-year-old fled with her children and parents to a shelter on the other side of the Dnieper River.