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  • Graphic report Missiles, bombings, artillery and armored assault: this is the lightning attack that Putin has launched against Ukraine

In Ukraine those who want to leave do not know where to go.

And those who want to fight don't know where to start.

War has been a pain on the country's eastern flank for eight years, festering over half-fulfilled peace deals.

Now suddenly the war is everywhere, focused on so many Ukrainian military targets that any civilian can be touched.

Many citizens approached the subway yesterday, to

take refuge from an air attack

.

In Kiev it is no longer good or bad.

How well one does is measured by the distance from danger.

- How are you, Olga?

- Safe.

The conversations are brief and with content that would have been unheard of two months ago.

People share the most convenient air-raid shelters in WhatsApp groups.

Car addicts who lived with their backs to the subway have rediscovered the map of the underground: each station can be a hiding place.

It's still hard to imagine a bomb falling in front of your favorite restaurant, but in the morning the air raid sirens chilled the blood in Kiev.

Shops and cafes on Jreschatik Street are closed, ATMs are short of cash and finding food in the center is difficult.

In some hotels the workers have disappeared

.

The clients have taken possession of a conquered land at risk of destruction.

It was never so sad to be able to park.

Simply hundreds of people around you have left, with the disastrous halo that this leaves.

Either they have better gauged the danger than you or they just can afford it.

From Kharkov Alexander witnessed a silent flight at first, wild in the last hours.

A class break.

"On Wednesday I noticed that there were far fewer good cars, neither parked nor circulating, those with businesses or savings did not go to work, they fled west."

A day later, Alexander was one of those who fled, just after seeing black clouds in the sky of Kharkov.

- How are you, Alexander?

- Fleeing from Kharkov.

Running away is an option, even if you have nowhere.

"It's over, I'm going to put my family in the car and we're going, for now, to the west, to the center of the country, then we'll see," Alexander, a lifelong resident of Kharkov, told this newspaper.

The border of this region, previously a key export point, was closed.

"There is a lot of artillery nearby, it is very dangerous, they have bombed, they are practically here, Putin has gone crazy," he managed to say as his family closed their suitcases one by one.

Neighbors share grim news.

"They have attacked a zoo in Kharkov and killed the animals. It seems that they too were a threat to Putin."

"I have been told that there are soldiers in the Russian army who have not wanted to fight, I don't know if it is true but it is normal, we are brothers, it is as if in Spain you started to fight against Portugal by order of your president", said Yura.

In Kiev, those who stayed fortified themselves as best they could: "We are safe at home, we have gone out for food and we have located a shelter nearby," Nikita summed up:

"People here are afraid

. "

Long traffic jams formed on the roads of people seeking to escape from the Russian advance.

"People want to go west, to cities where there are no airports or military facilities," Olga, an official, told Efe.

As many as 2,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived at the border with Moldova

.

On the street, people ran with suitcases while others queued at ATMs or gas stations.

As the hours passed, the armored vehicles took over the landscape, while everyday life went down the drain.

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