Kyiv faces record air raid alerts as Russia escalates round-the-clock strikes

Since late August, Kyiv has entered a new phase of the war — not marked by front-line advances, but by the relentless fragmentation of ordinary life. Russia has shifted to round-the-clock drone strikes using faster, harder-to-intercept jet-powered weapons, sounding air raid sirens an average of ten times each day and reaching a historic seventy-six alerts in a single week. The city's residents — students, workers, commuters — are being asked to absorb an exhaustion that is less dramatic than bombardment but no less corrosive, as a government scrambles to balance safety with the basic human nee