it's a continuous battle and they're struggling here keev and the rest of the country under an intense and unprecedented series of drone and missile attacks for days now air defense teams fire volleys of machine gun rounds into the Skies over the capital powerful search lights crisscrossing the night skies looking for the Russian drones after the latest attack president zalinsky accused Russia of using cluster bombs on civilian targets describing it as a Despicable escalation thousands took shelter in Metro stations and shelters across the country President Putin told his people this barrage was directly linked to the
British and American decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russia in Frozen Fields hundreds even thousands of soldiers man their positions in Sub-Zero temperatures they do their best to track the incoming drones but Russian tactics have changed as many as half a harmless decoys designed to waste time and bullets the other half are deadly uh I don't know I cannot say the specific purpose of that whether it's uh just a terror to uh make people uh feel unsafe and uh create unstable situation or it's some kind of facilities they're trying to Target but
uh they are um oper operating it like regularly this thin defensive line is being tested by a Russian escalation that's trying to wear Ukraine out well such as the increased targeting of Kei that the Ukraine military extremely worried about this have assigned units specifically to defend the capital the problem is it's not just a few drones which they were used to defending it now can run into hundreds SES of the country en nightly plunged Into Darkness including here in in the capital rolling electricity blackouts caused by Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure
the only lights are from generators through the darkness aliona W me to her third floor flat in ke's Left Bank District her husband yevhen has wired up their apartment to a car battery so they have limited power and crocodile for families in particular the threat of attack from the skies never goes away in many ways it's psychological warfare and it's taking its toll it's meant to I saw a missile being shot down let me tell you it was terrifying it's a haunting experience even though I'm standing here now telling you about how we measure the
scale of the danger it's still deeply frightening to be in the open despite the attacks and the threat life in keev has a veneer of normality shops and restaurants are open and between the Air Raids people go about their normal business as this war grinds on and on Stuart Ramsey Sky News keth
