STORY: :: As Kyiv residents take shelter from air strikes, one woman believes 'Russia won't stop' until Ukraine is destroyed
:: December 6, 2025 / Kyiv, Ukraine
:: Tatiana Tymoshenko, Kyiv resident
"They simply won't stop until it destroys us. That's my opinion. And I think that's how it will continue. Their plan is to bring us down as a nation."
"We go down into the metro every time, well, we used to go down there before... Since our building was hit and we lost our apartment, we now go down into the metro once the air-raid alarm starts."
"We are waiting, waiting for the renovation. It will take a long time, at least a year and a half, but we don't have any other choice. We need to live as we survived what happened. So, we don't have a choice. We have children, and we need to raise them."
She currently rents an apartment whilst her own is being repaired - something she says could take at least a year and a half.
Lined with tents and yoga mats, the metro station has become a regular haven for thousands of residents during waves of Russian attacks.
Russian drones and missiles hit energy infrastructure in eight Ukrainian regions overnight, causing blackouts, Ukraine's energy ministry said on Saturday.
Power and heat generation facilities in the Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions were targeted in the attack, Ukraine's ministry for development of communities and territories said.
