Tetiana Lishchynska was overcome with emotion when dozens of residents in one of Kyiv’s districts hardest-hit by Russian strikes gathered this month to press authorities to open a bomb shelter under preparation since 2023.
“I had to run with my 4-year-old grandson to a clinic while there was a ballistic missile attack,” she screamed, amid a crowd of exasperated civilians in Sviatoshynskyi district.
The clinic has a basement and is
