The latest barrage of Russian missiles launched across Ukraine sent residents of Kyiv running for shelter on Friday and set off a wave of anger among a population frustrated by weeks of power outages and hardship.

All of Ukraine was put under an air-raid alarm on Friday morning as Russia fired more than 60 missiles. In one apartment building, people huddled in the stairway, their faces illuminated by the blue light of their cellphones as they watched for updates.

Outside, a thick fog shrouded the city. A crowd gathered under the protection of a highway overpass near Kyiv’s power plant No. 5. “I heard a whistle in the sky for two or three seconds, then an explosion,” said Ruslan Polishchuk, a construction worker. “I felt the blast wave on my cheeks, and it knocked off my hat.” He said people had started running towards the nearby subway station.

“They were afraid more would fly in,” Polishchuk said, adding that he had initially run there, too, but found it to be so packed with people that it felt claustrophobic and more dangerous. “See how we live,” said Gennady Omelyan, a taxi driver. “We are fed up! We need to hit back at Russia. Give us weapons.”

(New York Times News Service)