At the fifth anti-aircraft alarm in just over twelve hours even the inhabitants of Eastern Paris could not take it anymore.
In part, they decided to ignore the call from the loudspeakers and continued walking around.
To buy street food.
Talking while sitting on the benches in the Market Square.
On the twenty-sixth day of the war, Lviv also begins to feel a little tired, eternally suspended between the imminent attack and the beauty of its Habsburg buildings.
But for a few hours, to the west of the Dnieper, the great river that geographically divides Ukraine in two, the alert has been steadily increasing.
Ukraine: siren night in Lviv, but no attack
There have been no attacks on military facilities in Lviv, at least so far.
But in the morning two missiles landed on a training camp in Rivne, two hundred kilometers from the city.
Also in Zytomyr, between Lviv and Kiev they tell of an empty city and streets wrapped in an atmosphere of growing tension.
The two alarms that went off during the night in Lviv made people fear the worst for a moment.
Eyes immediately focused on the TV tower, a sensitive target and, above all, a structure as the crow flies dangerously close to the center.
Far closer than the other possible target of Russian aviation: the international airport located southwest of the city.
And then there is the Minsk rebus.
Among those who handle the military strategies of this conflict with a certain ease, the conviction grows that one of the possible red lines of the invasion of Russia is the intervention of Belarus.
But is it really possible?
Minsk, as we know, lives in the shadow of Moscow.
But in Lviv many remember a fact: relations between Belarusians and Ukrainians have never been excessively tense, until recently it would have been impossible to think of an attack by the former on the latter.
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Alarms and missiles, signs of fatigue in Lviv (by correspondent Michele Esposito) - ANSA Voice daily
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The problem is that you are navigating on sight.
In Lviv as in the European chancelleries.
We are navigating a diplomatic quagmire that becomes daily in Ukrainian cities, even in the least affected ones.
A firm point remains the very firm support of the West for Volodymyr Zelensky.
"The courage of the Ukrainians was incredible, we work hard to help them," assured the French ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Poncins.
Opening to a verification, together with the Ukrainian authorities, of possible "war crimes" committed by Russia.
During the week, through the Polish airlift, France will send ambulances, emergency vehicles, humanitarian kits.
Meanwhile, the Telegram channel of the mayor, Andrij Sadovyj, alternated fatal news with glimmers of hope.
First he denounced the death, in Kharkiv, of the 96-year-old Boris Romanchenko, who survived several concentration camps but not the "Hitlerian" fury of the Russians.
Then he announced that 105 women, displaced from all over Ukraine, have given birth in hospitals in Lviv since the beginning of the war.
They came from Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Kiev and had to escape the bombs in Moscow with few things.
"But life will always win over death", Sadovyi ruled.
Monday began with yet another funeral of a killed soldier, that of Lviv.
And the day ended with an anti-aircraft warning of over two hours.
But after just over an hour, the streets still got crowded.
From a bar the notes of 'Hey Jude' began to spread through the Market Square.
And when the sirens decreed the return to life not everyone, this time, heard them.