In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian Red Cross helps people hiding in the subway

From the first day of the war, thousands of people have been hiding in Kharkiv metro from endless shelling and bombing. Some are just waiting for the night to be safe, and most simply have nowhere to go. The war has already destroyed 1,671 residential buildings in Kharkiv, which is hundreds of thousands of people without their homes.

Up to 500 people can now “live” at one metro station. Volunteers of Ukrainian Red Cross in Kharkiv regularly provide people who are forced to hide in the metro with basic necessities: blankets, clothes, food, water, hygiene items and medicines.