A group of people walk on a street as black smoke billows from Russian military shelling on the horizon.
(Photo: dpa)
It’s six o’clock local time on Sunday morning when Wang Jixian’s home is shaken. “It was like an earthquake,” says the Chinese software developer, who lives in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.
Ever since the Russian invasion began, Wang has been blogging about the war on his YouTube channel, trying to bring the truth to his home country, which is dominated by state reporting. And that meant time and again in Odessa: detonations when Russian missiles are intercepted, shattered windows, repeated air raid alarms.
“But this time it was more violent, I noticed that immediately,” Wang said in a telephone conversation on Monday. “It seemed very close, like right in front of my house.”
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