Friday (Feb 25) was when he first heard the sounds of gunfire, coming from the harbour not far from his home, he told The Straits Times "Naturally, I ducked, and grabbed my phone," he said. "I tried to show what the firefight was with my phone. The moment it built up to a certain intensity, I thought I better go back into the bunker, somewhere safe."
When there is an air raid siren or the sound of shooting, Mr Shen said he and his wife and some residents take
shelter in the basement carpark below their Soviet-era nine-floor apartment building, while others hide out in the stairwells.
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The sight of Ukrainian military vehicles on their streets....In another update, Mr Shen is seen arranging heavy bags of cat litter against his windows. "I've dug some trenches during my days in the army, but never have I thought that I would be using cat litter as sandbags," he said, as a siren sounded briefly in the distance.
"There's no other building in front of my building, and if there's going to be any stray or ricocheting bullets, my windows might be damaged, and we might get injured while we are inside. So putting cat litter
Mr Shen said his wife, a medical officer with a Ukrainian reserve unit, had not been called up yet as of Monday, and friends working in the local hospitals said that everything is still operating normally for now. But situation could soon become worse.
He has received an SMS from the Ukrainian government to be prepared for fighting to build up, and to prepare enough food, water and clothing to go a bunker should air raid sirens be heard.
Said Mr Shen: "Many Ukrainians from what I see on the social websites, they are optimistic, because the morale is high among the public, reservist soldiers and front line regular fighters... no one is backing down."