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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Alistair Bunkall

Ukraine dispatch: ‘Lviv was living a charmed life compared to other major cities...that all changed on Saturday night’

People wait in Lviv to board a train towards Poland as they flee Russia's invasion of Ukraine

(Picture: REUTERS)

Another night interrupted by the chilling drone of the air raid sirens across the city. It’s become an everyday part of life here, but I’ll never get used to it; I’m not sure anyone could.

The first night they sounded, I leaped out of bed and looked out of my window to the apartment block across the street to see what others were doing.

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