there is a quiet and a calmness here, but it is not safe. the windows are prepared for whatever might come next. the city of today dnipro is split by the river, a buffer for ukraine from advance by the russians from the east. this week russian missiles hit the city s new airport. on the east side of the river is the dnipro branch of the ukrainian association for the blind, a place that is now a refuge for anyone who needs it. in the quiet of the corridor we found larissa bovina. she describes this place as heaven and from the hell she has escaped it certainly is. there were a whole range of feelings, she tells me, in my hands, my legs, my ears, the vibration from the bombs. this is the experience of war for the blind.