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Thursday, May 19, residents of Kharkiv continue to take refuge in the metro, although the city has been taken back from the Russians. Many do not know where to go and are afraid to go out.
In Kharkiv (Ukraine), the bombardments ceased on Thursday, May 19. Ukrainian forces succeeded in repelling the Russian army. The last inhabitants, who had taken refuge in the metro, can now leave it. But, after three months underground, some are lost and afraid to come back to the surface. “It’s hard to get out, because everything is destroyed around us, but not only. We have to rebuild ourselves in our heads“, assures a resident.
“I’m really bad, we have to decide to leave, but I’m scared“, adds his wife. Since the end of February, hundreds of people have taken refuge in the metro and have shared their loneliness and their anguish. “I lived through the first bombings, I can’t forget. As soon as we go out, we tell ourselves that something is going to happen to us“, testifies a man. The town hall of Kharkiv asks the occupants to leave the places by the end of the week.