基辅市长维塔利·克里奇科表示，面对学校、医院和桥梁接连遭到袭击，基辅市民再也无法假装处于“和平时期”。瓦莱里娅·特卡琴科当时正在基辅市中心送儿子上学，空袭警报突然响起。工作人员急忙引导孩子们和家长们进入防空洞，这位惊恐不已的女律师便和儿子在防空洞里待了两个小时。
Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Kyivans can no longer pretend it is ‘peacetime’ amid strikes on school, hospital and bridge Valeriya Tkachenko was dropping her son off at school in central Kyiv when the air raid alert sounded. Staff hurried the children and parents into the shelter, where the frightened lawyer spent the next two hours with her son.
“我一整天都害怕得要命，生怕儿子遭遇不测，”从防空洞中出来后，她说道。此时她已经要迟到了。
“I’m scared to death all day about what could happen to my son,” she said as she emerged from the shelter, already late for work.