English subtitles for clip: File:Solemn Kyiv Copes with Bombs Gunfire.webm

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HEATHER: Tonight we are reporting
from a hotel room in Kyiv,

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the capital of Ukraine.

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The reason we are coming
to you from a hotel room,

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instead of from the streets of Kyiv,

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is because this entire city, as of 
5PM on Saturday, is lockdown.

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People are ordered to stay in their houses,
in their rooms and off the streets.

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Ukrainian authorities say the reason
for the lockdown is that

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they believe that there are, essentially,
Russian spies inside the areas

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of the city that are
controlled by Ukrainian forces.

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It's actually, almost crazy to say, that
the area is controlled by Ukranian forces.

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because this has been an
independent country for 30 years,

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and just, over the past three days,
Russian forces have invaded.

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Starting with bomb attacks on the cities
and towns across the country,

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followed by ground forces
moving in.

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Over the past few days,
what was a bustling metropolis,

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Kyiv was a city, just
a week ago, where

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families were sitting at cafés,
and, people were going to parties,

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and restaurants, and bars at night;
we saw dancing on the streets.

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Now, less than a week later...

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...we see checkpoints made of...

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...old tires and bricks
and other found items,

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civilians gathering weapons,

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other civilians making weapons,
like Molotov cocktails,

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we hear gunfire on the streets,

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at night, we can hear
bombs in the distance,

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during the day there are
more bombs, outside the city,

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but sometimes frighteningly close.

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Today, we heard gunfire in
a residential neighbourhood,

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we saw aid workers,
and journalists, taking cover,

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and then finally coming out to examine,
once again, a civilian building,

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with three stories of it had
been bombed out early this morning.

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So, for tonight, and for tomorrow,
everyone in this city, all of the civilians

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including the journalists,
are supposed to stay inside,

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by ourselves, in this hotel room,

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so here we are, reporting from
Kyiv, Ukraine for VOA News.