Built in wake of WWII, Kyiv metro offers shelter from Russian shells

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by Dmitry ZAKS The wounded Ukrainian soldier dropped his crutches to the Kyiv metro station floor and picked up his five-year-old son, first wiping tears from his shaking wife’s face. The sweet smell of sweat from the bodies of sheltering Ukrainians permeated the damp, chilly air around them. But Sergiy and Natalia Badylevych were oblivious to the cooking odours and the dozing families spread out on the floor of what has become one of Kyiv’s […]