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On a recent evening in Kyiv, 4-year-old Olexander Reshetnik made a simple suggestion to his parents: \u201cLet\u2019s go to the parking garage now so we can sleep properly, and you don\u2019t have to wake us up twice to take us there and back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family lives on the 18th floor of a high-rise building and getting into the underground garage that doubles as a bomb shelter during Russian attacks is an uncomfortable experience. With aerial attacks becoming more common, it made sense to Oleksander to simply stay there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even at his young age, he knew the Russians would likely attack again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His mother Khrystyna Reshetnik said the family has gotten used to seeing drones being shot down in the skies over Ukraine\u2019s capital. In days gone by there would be one or two, maybe three, but things have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLately, they\u2019ve been flying like a swarm that doesn\u2019t stop for three or four hours. Explosions right outside the windows,\u201d she told CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CNN \u2014 On a recent evening in Kyiv, 4-year-old Olexander Reshetnik made a simple suggestion to his parents: \u201cLet\u2019s go to the parking garage now so we can sleep properly, and you don\u2019t have to wake us up twice to take us there and back.\u201d The family lives on the 18th floor of a high-rise building and getting into the underground garage that doubles as a bomb shelter during Russian attacks is an uncomfortable experience. With aerial attacks becoming more common, it made sense to Oleksander to simply stay there. Even at his young age, he knew the Russians would likely… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47843,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47841\/revisions\/47843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}