Hi!
I decided to write you about shelters as every day I get the same question:
- Whether I go to the shelter?
Now I don't. It might not sound good, I know.
But let's go back to the first days of our big war.
It's wonderful that I have a war book diary. I even keep the links to some of my tweets there. The first tweet I found mentioned the shelter I made on Feb 25, 2022 at 8:38 am.
In a bombshell, Osokorky metro station. #Kyiv. There're signals to hide. The missiles are moving towards the capital.
The link to this tweet is here. 
I remember in detail that we took some snacks, water, and documents and went to the metro station. We (I and Son, at that time, we didn't have our Victory - cat) were not there for a long time. But in a few hours, we went to the metro station again.
11:43 am #Kyiv Going to bombshell once again.
And there's a sun in the sky.
The link to this tweet is here.
Maybe something has changed after this tweet
It's 6:38 pm.
New air alert in #Kyiv. I'm tired to hide. Made a coffee & tell myself: "Go to hell, people who decided to invade my country". I want to stay in my place! I want to sleep in my bed! I want to see my mom smiling but not crying!
I am Ukrainian!
or this one
02:28 am in #Kyiv. At home. Dirty as from hell. In this bombshell (actually, it's a parking) cold & dusty. But it's ok, I'm not a princess.
We've met a lot of cool people. Even laughed. Everyone is so tired.
Now I feel very indifferent. Exhausted.
It seems to me that it was the last time we went to the shelter.
I've been thinking about it a lot. In my before-war imagination, shelters were the only places people could stay during the wars. We have seen the war only on our screens or in books. But in reality, you cannot go to the shelter whenever you hear the alerts. In this case, it is much better to live in the shelter. Because air raid alerts might happen anytime. So I talked with Vlad (Son), and we agreed to stay home during alerts.
There is one exception. If everything is bombed heavily... But I'm not sure any shelter will help us in this case.
We need a picture. From the past. Take a look. I took it on February 28. It's a message to the russian soldier (written in russian for him to understand):
russian soldier, go f... yourself! 
Ok, let's continue with shelters. We don't have special bomb shelters. Our shelters are metro stations, underground parking lots, and basements. The safest ones are metro stations. The most dangerous (In my opinion) are basements. The people might be buried in the basement if missiles hit the house.
I don't know if there are a lot of people who still go to the shelters. Some go. But we are asked to go to the shelter during air raid alerts every time. The city app cries about it, Telegram channels, alarms in the shops, cinemas, gas stations... everywhere.
The siren? At first, we heard it. Now we have so many 'please, go to the shelter' cries that we're deaf to the siren. I even don't know whether we still have it in Kyiv. We should. It's a war.
So. Now you know (maybe again) that I don't go to the shelters. I might have tons of reasons for it. I might be wrong. Or right. Or dead. Or pretty alive.
Thank you for caring. I see it. I feel it.
We will win this war. I want to see the victory from my window. As I see this war.
The picture is from Feb 24, 2022, 7:59 am. 