Stay or flee? Kyiv mothers torn on how to keep children safe as Russian attacks step up

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

With daily air raid alerts stretching for hours and children spending full days in kindergarten bomb shelters, parents are making the agonizing decision to move to western cities like Lviv and Lutsk, where safety, too, remains fragile.

Photo: Khrystyna Kulakovska / the Kyiv Independent.