raids sirens tonight and then a call from the authorities, including the people running this hotel — "take to your shoulders and don't come out." the meier of the city, a famous boxer who has now taken on a military uniform and picked up again, he told the citizens of kyiv "this is going to be a difficult night." there was a roll of explosions across care tonight, explosions in the distance, still not in the centre, still about ten miles away, there was also the rattle of gunfire and artillery as well. this was a night so different from last night where these exclusions first started, but there is a real worry that as the russian forces approach kyiv, approached the city, with fighting in the suburbs, this is just the fighting in the suburbs, this isjust the beginning of fighting in the suburbs, this is just the beginning of what could be a long battle, a battle for the city to survive. and we saw today, as we went