Nicolas Tonev 1:36 p.m., March 21, 2022

This Monday, kyiv was still affected by Russian attacks.

The Ukrainian capital saw its Retroville shopping center, located in the northwest in the Podilsky district, hit in a bombardment during the night.

The inhabitants fled, in the middle of the night, panicked.

At sunrise, anti-aircraft missile fire rang out.

The strikes do not weaken in kyiv.

During the night from Sunday to Monday, the Retroville shopping center was heavily affected in the heart of the war.

Roman lives in the Podilsky district, northwest of the Ukrainian capital.

He tells the microphone of Europe 1 to have been awakened in the middle of the night, forced to flee.

“At 10:50 p.m. there was a loud explosion,” he told our microphone.

"I was already asleep. I ran away because it felt like it was falling on the building. I had this feeling. Then I came to my senses and realized that we hadn't not been touched."

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Roman recounts the screams and the terror: "We took things and went down to the shelter. It was panic. People were shouting that there was shooting in the street. There was the second explosion very strong too. But not like the first. It's the horror, all these deaths. It was our favorite shopping center."

A shock wave felt

This Monday in kyiv, at sunrise, the war was still raging.

The detonation of the launch of an anti-aircraft missile, whose trail could clearly be followed towards the sky, made a lot of noise on takeoff at 11 o'clock sharp.

An explosion whose people on the spot felt the shock wave on the parking lot of the shopping center.

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It's probably ammunition that went off nearby, maybe on the target area, last night.

Witnesses on the spot, including one from the territorial defense, evoke the possibility that part of the shopping center could have been used as storage.

The partly new Podilsky district suffered a lot.

Buildings on the front line facing the stores took the brunt of the shock wave.

The background noise has now returned to the usual one, for about four weeks, with in the distance, the firing of automatic weapons.

And, even further, the detonations from the front.