Photo by Leonid Logvinenko | Kharkiv city. March 2, 2022 | The kindergarten basement has become a bomb shelter for kids and their parents.
In Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, people take refuge in basements and subway stations as they put into practice the survival skills they have learned since the start of the Russian invasion. In Kharkiv, it is easy to put these lessons into practice. One important lesson is that when you hear the whistle of a missile, it means that it is close and will hit in no more than five seconds. Those five seconds are essential: it is the time needed to take cover on the ground and to increase one’s chances of getting out alive.