Sleepless in Kyiv: how Ukraine’s capital copes with Russia’s nighttime attacks

Several nights a week, Daria Slavytska packs a yoga mat, blankets and food into a stroller and descends with her two-year-old Emil into the Kyiv subway. While air raid sirens wail above, the 27-year-old tries to snatch a few hours’ sleep safely below ground.

For the past two months, Russia has unleashed nighttimedrone and missile assaults on Kyiv in a summer offensive that is straining the city’s air defences, and