Inside her glass-strewn Kyiv apartment, Alla Ragulina cries as she surveys the wreckage of a life shattered by a surge in Russian strikes on the capital.
The sheer force of the early morning blast blew out the windows and threw the 64-year-old tax service employee against a wall.
"People were sleeping, glass pieces were flying around, I was literally pushed into the wall - it's really a miracle that nobody was killed." The attacks threaten to drive still more people out of the city, from which an estimated half of its 3.5 million people have fled.A huge crater sits at the foot of Ragulina's block in the Podilsk area of Kyiv. Police and army experts examine the remains of a missile.Some are burned out, others filled with glass and broken furniture. In one a sewing machine sits covered in debris.
Its occupant sits by the smashed window, smoking a cigarette and staring vacantly out at the cold morning sun. A small black dog wades through the water."I woke up, I had a bad premonition. I wanted to get up, but the sharp blast pushed me out of bed, I fell down and cut my feet," he said, asking not to be named.
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