When bombs stopped falling on the northern Ukraine city of Chernihiv, Yulia Zhdanova and her sons ran up from the basement and devoured a pot of cold vegetable soup with grimy hands. Ms. Zhdanova’s phone then warned of another air raid.
The 39-year-old English teacher and her sons dashed into a hallway and hit the floor, covering their ears, when the explosions blew out doors and windows.