“Please don’t panic, but they’ve started bombing Kyiv,” Cay*, a non-binary queer activist with Queer Rebels, recalled hearing their partner say over the phone at 6:30 am on Friday, as they awoke in their hometown of Kyiv in a state of total shock.
The previous day, 24 February, the world had watched as Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia unleashed terror from the north, east and south, targeting Ukraine by air, land and sea. By the early hours of Friday morning, the capital, Kyiv, was under attack.
Shortly after their troubling phone call, Cay heard an explosion.
