Sergey Rylov heard the thud as a Russian missile was shot down on its way toward Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, a town on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine where he’s lived since fleeing the fighting in the east a month ago.
His immediate thought was that he’d be keeping his daughter home from kindergarten that day. His second? “The war’s coming here too.”
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