The curfew will last until Monday – all those who go outside will be treated as saboteurs, the Kyiv City Council warned.
Clock was about half past one in the morning on Sunday when residents of the Ramada Encore hotel woke up to an alarm message urging all guests to go to the bomb shelter.
This in itself has been routine since the beginning of the Kiev invasion, but only this time the bombings forced guests into bomb shelters in our hotel, which the UN has considered a “safe house”.
Earlier in the night, the hotel had apparently not issued any alarms due to the security provided by the remote location. The hotel is located more than ten kilometers south of the city center.
UN people therefore, the hotel is still almost full, with many other lodges deserted by foreigners and many Kievans fleeing the capital.
“We have our job here, so what else can we do but go to the bomb shelter. This is what this is now, ”sighed the UN leadership assistant Irina Bochum 12-year-old son Artemin with HS.
How mother explains the nonsense of war to her child?
“As it is: war has broken out and we are being bombed.”
Young Artem has a Russian cousin of the same age and a good friend who lives in Moscow. They want peace, but the president of Russia Vladimir Putin decided to take military action.
This is how 12-year-olds are now citizens of an enemy country.
Horizon glowed blood red and each new explosion illuminated the sky for a moment more as hotel guests passed through the front door into the steps of the bomb shelter.
This, too, was new in the Ramada Encore: the explosions had been heard in the past, but they had been so far north that no similar sightings had been made.
The hotel Finnish cellist and director of Game Music Collective, who had previously been interviewed by HS, were also found in the bomb shelter Lukas Stasevskywho is studying in Kiev as a film director.
The night before, he had spent several hours from three in the morning in a bomb shelter in the basement of a school near his home in the Solomjansky district. But on Saturday he and his girlfriend Kseniia Pavlova had moved to this hotel in a quieter area.
“For bomb shelter, this is good, although of course all the arrangements for bomb shelter in our neighborhood work great,” Stasevsky compared.
Only shortly before the bombing began, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen suggested to EU leaders that “certain Russian banks be disconnected from the Swift payment system” while paralyzing the Russian central bank.
“This can be really ugly,” Stasevsky estimated after reading the decision.
“As sanctions tighten, the Russian leadership may think they have nothing to lose.”
And it is feared to mean directing bombings to clean civilian targets.
“Russia has the same experience in Grozny,” Stasevsky recalls.
Next Kiev residents are threatened by a humanitarian crisis in perhaps a few days.
“I was talking to a guy in the regional defense and he couldn’t find any more pharmacy to get the medication a family member needed. Kiev will soon need humanitarian aid. Medicines are running out and food and water are running out, ”Stasevsky said.
Three in the morning after the bombing seemed to have subsided in Kiev in those areas where hearing and sightings could be obtained from the hotel.
So several hotel guests left the bomb shelter and returned to their rooms.
“Let’s get back to shelter,” they estimate.
Bomb shelter the stairs to the front door of the hotel were only a few meters away, and those meters are the only ones you can walk outside on here on a sunday.
Namely, there is a complete curfew in Kiev until Monday at eight o’clock in the morning.
Everyone found in the open air in Kiev will be treated as a saboteur on Sunday, the Kyiv City Council warned.
#Ukraine #journalist #Kiev #bomb #shelter #skyline #glowed #force #explosions
