Kyiv residents exhausted as Russia's relentless missile attacks leave just minutes to take cover

Russia has sharply escalated the intensity and frequency of its strikes on Kyiv: in the first 10 days of July alone it fired dozens of ballistic missiles in three major attacks that killed nearly 60 civilians, with similar large-scale assaults in August and September. BBC Verify analysis of official figures found Kyiv now faces more daily air raid alerts than at any point since the 2022 full-scale invasion, sometimes leaving residents as little as a four-minute warning. Daria, a 27-year-old Kyiv resident who once slept through bombardments using the "two-wall rule", decided to leave the city after a young mother was killed while running to a shelter in June.