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At 19th on the day of the war, Monday March 14, the Kremlin evokes the possibility of taking control of all the major Ukrainian cities. among hers, Mykolaiv, and its trapped inhabitants who now live underground.
Monday, March 11, like every evening, the inhabitants of Mykolaiv (Ukraine) take refuge in shelters or underground to escape Russian missiles. The basement of a neighborhood school houses a hundred people. Two retirees, who have come to take refuge with their cat, are afraid of being alone at home. Ludmila tries to forget the outside, immersed in a thriller. In the shelter, no one sleeps. Thanks to the surveillance camera of an inhabitant, some control a screen, to identify the strikes.
“They send the bombs on civilians or sleeping neighborhoods”, describes Ivan, a former gas station boss, in charge of order in the shelter. At 6 a.m., some wanted to get out, but strikes that fell not far away made them go back underground again. “I’m going to leave the country, I’m too scared”, confides a young girl. With others, she joins buses, chartered for Moldova.
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