Olena Lopata was bringing her 3-year-old son Mark home from kindergarten when the explosions rang out overhead.
\n\nShe did her best to comfort and reassure Mark, his face contorted with fear, as they both dropped to the ground in their residential Kyiv neighborhood, while drone debris began to fall and sirens rang out in the distance.
\n\nThe ordeal, inadvertently captured on a video Lopata was filming for her mother, has now been viewed 1.7 million times after she shared it on TikTok.
\n\n“In my head, it was just about keeping my son safe,” Lopata, 26, told NBC News on the phone from Kyiv a week after the incident. They escaped unscathed, but Lopata said it has left her “badly shaken,” even after years of life under Russian strikes in the Ukrainian capital.
\n\nPicking up her son from kindergarten was a seemingly mundane task that even during the war she used to be able to do in relative safety.
\n\nKyiv residents are no strangers to near-daily Russian strikes, but the bulk of them came overnight or in the early-morning hours. That has changed in recent months, with attacks now coming during the day too.
\n\nThe shift to round-the-clock attacks appears to…
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