stay or run away? Kyiv mothers are torn about how to keep children safe as Russian attacks increase.

stay or run away? Kyiv mothers are torn about how to keep children safe as Russian attacks increase.

Spending nights on cold subway floors while their children sleep, mothers in Kyiv face the same question they faced at the start of the full-scale invasion: stay or flee.

With daily lightning strikes: when children spend whole days in kindergarten shelters, parents make the agonizing decision to move to western cities like Lviv and Lutsk, where safety also remains fragile.

Photo: Khrystyna Kulkovska / The Kyiv Independent.