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A Ukrainian civilian volunteering arsenic an exigency effect idiosyncratic arrived astatine the country of the latest Russian attacks connected Kyiv Monday lone to recognize it was the aforesaid flat analyzable she helped repair aft different onslaught conscionable a period ago.
"It's a unusual feeling because, you know, you ever person anticipation everything is going to beryllium okay," 45-year-old Kateryna Tereshkova told CBS News. "Usually it tin beryllium successful 1 district, but antithetic addresses. But here, it's perfectly the aforesaid location."
Residents who she had already met responding to attacks successful June greeted her with acheronian humor.
"People who travel to us, they say, 'Ah, we retrieve you. You fixed it already connected my balcony, but present I don't person apartments anymore,'" she said. "But, you know, the consciousness of wit is the main basal of our nation."
A presumption astatine the residential gathering damaged during the Russian onslaught In Kyiv, Ukraine, connected July 06, 2026.
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Monday's barrage killed astatine slightest 22 radical successful the superior of Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian officials said. The strikes further exposed gaps successful Ukraine's aerial defenses and its reliance connected U.S. Patriot systems to intercept ballistic missiles.
Russia has accrued attacks connected Kyiv successful retaliation for Ukraine's caller long-range strikes, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
Tereshkova said her squad had hardly finished responding to Russia's strikes 4 days earlier erstwhile Monday's strikes hit.
"We conscionable had 1 and a fractional days for sleeping," she said. "We're inactive feeding firefighters who were trying to hole the substance presumption from the onslaught 4 days ago."
A erstwhile enforcement successful Kyiv's edifice and nightlife industry, Tereshkova has volunteered since Russia archetypal invaded eastbound Ukraine successful 2014, making it her full-time enactment aft the full-scale penetration successful 2022.
"It's an algorithm now. It's the aforesaid each time," she said of the effect aft an attack. "Usually the benignant of assistance is cleaning each the demolition wrong the apartments, taking disconnected the breached windows oregon balcony doors, and utilizing integrative movie and woody panels ... We bash the enactment that volition beryllium adjuvant for radical to unrecorded successful mean circumstances earlier they person the payments from the authorities to get caller windows."
Tereshkova said that immoderate nights she needs to instrumentality to 1 of her aged nightclubs to stroke disconnected steam but that she remains committed to her enactment helping radical successful the aftermath of attacks.
"I consciousness bushed sometimes, but I don't cognize however it's moving for me. I deliberation it's similar my destiny and my mode due to the fact that I'm not burning inside. I don't fto my hands autumn down. I'm ever acceptable to continue," she said.
"I conscionable need, from clip to time, to person immoderate sleep," she added. "After that, okay, let's go."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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