When the shelling starts, Alla Viktorivna usually hides in her cellar in a village in southern Ukraine.
“But sometimes in the night, you don’t have time,” she said.
You hear it whistling and smashing.”Ms. Viktorivna lives in Stepnohirsk, part of a buffer area between Ukrainian and Russian positions on the Zaporizhzhia front.
But despite the barrage of Russian strikes, she has no intention of leaving.
“I never thought to leave,” she said.
Persons:
Alla Viktorivna, ”, “, Ms, Viktorivna
Locations:
Ukraine, Stepnohirsk