HS in Ukraine Finnish Lukas did not sleep for a second during the Kiev bombing: “Ukrainians will never forgive this”

Dnipro

Ukrainians woke up on the second morning of the war on Friday in very different situations across the country.

HS was present at the million-strong city of Dnipro along the Dnieper River when he was 31 years old Vladislav Rubyk traveled three kilometers from his home to work in the downtown Soho Hotel.

“On Thursday morning, we woke up to an explosion and later found out it came from our city airport. I didn’t hear any explosions tonight and there was no air alarm, so I stayed at home at night, ”Rubyk told HS.

He said Thursday’s past work marks and contacts between friends and relatives across the country over the summer.

“No one expected such a development. Many panicked, many left town, and many asked where to hide. The city was well informed about the bomb shelters, which you can apply for if necessary. ”

Rubyk has one wish over the others.

“Everyone wants peace. We are very alone and no concrete help from abroad seems to be coming now. ”

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“Putin has united the Ukrainian people against him in an unprecedented way.”

Right in other moods spent the night in Kiev Lukas Stasevskyknown as a Finnish cellist and leader of the Game Music Collective.

“I haven’t slept in a minute. There have been enough explosions here in Kiev, ”Stasevsky told HS by phone.

“However, there was no air alarm in our district, close to the Solomyansky area, so we stayed in our apartment.”

Stasevsky is in Kiev because he is studying film directing at the Ukrainian Film School.

“I usually spend about half of my time in my home country, Finland, on music projects, but now I stay here. When he wants to be a film director in Ukraine, it would seem wrong to flee now that other Ukrainian friends have to live in the middle of a war, ”Stasevsky says.

After the President of Russia Vladimir Putin declared the separatist regions in Donetsk and Luhansk in the eastern part of the country to be “independent,” Stasevksij and many other Kievans said so. However, Russia had practically ruled the territories since 2014.

“But two days later, he is bombing the whole country with a punitive mentality,” Stasevsky says.

“There is no reason for such an attack at all. Russian-speakers are said to be protected, but the whole country is being bombed. ”

Putin hopes the bombs will bring fear and disintegration, but Stasevsky sees a different course of development.

“Putin has united the Ukrainian people against him in an unprecedented way. Putin can destroy infrastructure and destroy a country that has done nothing for him and the Russians, but in a sense he has already lost. Ukrainians will never forgive that. ”