“That area where my friend lived is 10 kilometres away. So as Kiev is divided into two parts by the river (Dnieper) and connected by a bridge, my concern was if they blasted the bridge, you couldn’t cross over,” she said.
She witnessed the bombing sitting in her bunker, as the smoke billowed in the sky from the civilian site. As a rule, Ukrainians were supposed to take shelter in the nearest bunker on hearing the siren.
“It was a small place with no ventilation,” she said, looking back.
Any loud sound made Horodetska turn her head and associate it with an experience triggered among soldiers who return from wars.
“It can never be accepted as a new reality as it’s wrong and it shouldn’t be like that. Everyday, we read stories about what is going on and it is not like it has stopped shocking you at some point. It is still.. how can you do that?” she said, still in disbelief.
Source: Barandbench
