Israel Hayom correspondent Neta Bar witnessed firsthand what the war in Ukraine is like when he had to take cover at a bomb shelter in the western part of the country.
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Bar was at a train station in Ivano-Frankivsk when the sirens suddenly went off, prompting local security forces to rush the frightened civilians to the underground shelter. "I'm very scared," Roman, a resident of the city and an employee of the train service, told Bar. "You, Israelis, are used to this, but for us this is all very new, and it is a particularly brutal reality."
Vlad, who had arrived from Kyiv to visit his family, said, "I am not afraid of the bombings, but I am concerned over my country's fate. It would be unbearable to live under Russian President Vladimir Putin's authoritarianism. My home in Kyiv shook during the bombings and now this is happening here."
During the evening the sounds of bombs falling could be heard, along with sirens. Some 150,000 refugees have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Thursday.
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