‘The enemy is tearing our city apart’: terror in Kyiv as Russia ramps up attacks

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.

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.