A boys soccer team refuses to let the war stop them from training in Kyiv, Ukraine. But it’s with mixed feelings, when the bomb alarm can go off at any time and the power grid is out.
– Sometimes it’s hard and scary, but we’re getting used to it. We go down to the subway when we hear the air traffic alert, otherwise it’s okay, says 12-year-old Artem Kozjubra.
The soccer-mad 12-year-olds in Kyiv try to train as if nothing has happened. The war will not stop them, nor the darkness that has settled over 40 percent of the capital, where the Russian attacks knocked out the electricity grid.
Under makeshift lights, they brave, twice a week, both the darkness and the Russian bombings. But it was far from obvious to continue training, says Tymofej Androsjyk.
– The first few days we were very scared. That was in October, but now we’re used to it. Bombs are just bombs, after all, he says.