In the middle of the interview with Daria Synelnikova, a plane alarm is heard.
She takes the computer and moves further into the corner of the hall, the only room in her apartment without windows.
- It's very scary.
Before lunch today, the bomb alarm had gone off three times.
I huddle here and hope that it is not my house that meets, she says.
That she can not go down to the subway and seek shelter, as many other Kiev residents have done, has to do with her cat.
She is ill and can not leave home.
- The best thing for us is to stay here now, says Daria Synelnikova.
Are you going to leave the city?
- Many people wonder, but I do not want to.
This is my home, my place, says Daria Synelnikova.
See Daria's own photos from Kiev's empty streets, the subway where people spend the night, and the shops where some shelves are empty.