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Echoes of the Blitz

The London Transport Museum draws striking parallels between experiences of bombing for Ukrainians and Londoners

A new photographic display from the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden explores how metro stations have been used to shelter civilians from wartime bombardment. Echoes of the Blitz: Underground Shelters in Ukraine and London presents 38 images of Ukrainian citizens finding extraordinary ways to survive underground in Kyiv and Kharkiv’s metro stations. They can be seen sleeping, cooking, washing clothes and caring for each other within make-shift homes. The images are then

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