Three waves of 21 missiles were launched by Russia at residential buildings, energy facilities, shopping centers. It is a strategy assumed by the Kremlin to create panic, even a mass exodus from a capital it was unable to conquer at the start of the invasion in 2022.
The war made her realize how much one can adjust to so many things and integrate them into one's routine. Danger is now part of daily life. Sleeping in the metro or in a shelter is part of it.
Like almost all Ukrainians, she has already spent the night in the Kyiv metro, one of the capital's main shelters. Images of these shelters flooded social media from the start of the conflict.
Going to a party, going to the gym while drones explode outside, choosing to do normal things, that is living, she adds.
Since the invasion, her daily life has oscillated between these constraints. The attacks are daily, and yet one must continue to live, she says.
Daryna, 25, originally from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, began her adult life in a country at war. She was barely more than 21 when the full-scale Russian invasion began. France 24 met her in Kyiv. The young woman has become the symbol of a generation learning to live under the bombs, between air-raid alerts, nights in the metro and power outages.