Guns, Blasts And Smiles In Ukraine's Kyiv Under Military Curfew

Ambulances raced across some avenues and armed men in olive uniforms filled unmarked cars driving at a crawl.

Men with long guns peered out of slow-moving cars Sunday after a night of booms and gunfire under Kyiv's state-of-war curfew -- imposed with shoot-on-sight orders.

There was growing sense of a city under siege among the city's three million residents -- or at least those who had still had not fled -- fearful of coming under fire from either the Russians or their own security forces.

"What can you do?" Olena Vasylyaka asked, while dashing from her top-floor apartment to a basement sheltering her son and a few dozen neighbours.

"Of course we suffer. But it's fine, that's our life now," the 50-year-old said. "The sense of shock is wearing off."