Mother and Child's Desperate Run for Cover in Kyiv Ends Outside Locked Shelter
Marc Santora and Anatoly Kurmanaev The New York Times
Emergency workers and the mother of a woman killed in an overnight missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, stand near the body on Thursday. (photo: Nicole Tung/NYT)
02 June 23
But the clinic was locked, the authorities said. After explosions roared, the woman and her daughter were found dead among green trees and broken glass, just outside the door. So was another woman.
“People were knocking, knocking for a very long time,” the husband of the third victim, who gave his name as Yaroslav, told Ukraine’s public broadcaster. “There were women and children and nobody opened it.”
