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Commentary: My parents hide from shelling. My friends are making gas bombs. Ukraine needs our help

Let me tell you how people in Ukraine have spent the last four days. My parents and grandma are running back and forth from the eighth floor of their apartment to the cold and dusty basement to seek safety from the constant shelling of Kyiv. My friends, artists and designers, hide in shelters during the night and prepare Molotov cocktails during the day. Many of them joined coordination forces ...
Anastasia Vakulenko, left, consoles Natalya Chikonova, right, as she breaks down talking about her worries and the war that is raging above ground, while they seek shelter underground in a subway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022.

Let me tell you how people in Ukraine have spent the last four days.

My parents and grandma are running back and forth from the eighth floor of their apartment to the cold and dusty basement to seek safety from the constant shelling of Kyiv. My friends, artists and designers, hide in shelters during the night and prepare Molotov cocktails during the day. Many of them joined coordination forces to help the army and citizens with food and medicine.

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