A Sleepless Night of Russian Air Strikes in Ukraine “At only takes one thumping, window-shaking boom to reach a state of sudden, adrenaline-fuelled alertness. I was already awake in my room in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, when a burst of three explosions went off at five in the morning. A moment later, I was hustling downstairs to the hotel’s basement with Emanuele Satolli, an Italian photographer with whom I’ve been travelling. We looked at our phones in silence and tracked all the places where the bombs and missiles were landing: not just in Kramatorsk—where, on the outskirts of town, there is a military airfield that houses the Ukrainian command overseeing the war in the Donbas—but in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Odessa, Kyiv. Days earlier, I had been staying in a sleek business hotel in the center of the capital; a colleague who was still there posted an Instagram story of the breakfast buffet on the fifteenth floor, with shelling and air-raid sirens in the distance. ...”
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