Sleepless in Kyiv: How Ukraine's Capital Copes with Russia's Nighttime Attacks
- Russia has launched nighttime drone and missile attacks on Kyiv, straining the city's air defenses and affecting its 3.7 million residents, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
- After significant bombardments, visits to Kyiv's subway system for shelter rose to 165,000 in June, more than double May's numbers, as reported by the subway's press service.
- A study published in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology revealed that 88% of Ukrainians reported bad or very bad sleep quality, affecting their cognitive functions, according to psychologist Kateryna Holtsberh.
- Due to sleep deprivation from attacks, family psychologist Kateryna Holtsberh noted that residents experience stress and cognitive decline, impacting both children and adults.
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The citizens of Kiev have again taken the anti-aircraft alarms seriously. The vast majority of the inhabitants of the capital of Ukraine ignored the sirens warning of an imminent Russian bombing a few months ago. Nearly three and a half years of war have accustomed the population to explosions. But the intensity of the Russian bombings since last spring on the Ukrainian capital has left millions of people sleepless and has caused many to disburs…
In the last two months, Russia has launched brutal attacks with drones and rockets on Kiev in an offensive attempt to protect the city's anti-aircraft and expose it to the 3.7 million inhabitants of the Ukrainian capital.

Sleepless in Kyiv: how Ukraine's capital copes with Russia's nighttime attacks
By Yurii Kovalenko, Anastasiia Malenko and Vladyslav Smilianets
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