I was still awake when I received a message from a colleague in the middle of the night about Vladimir Putin's speech in which he announced the invasion.
And then immediately the explosions started. I heard them from my home, and soon people from different parts of the city started sending messages to our Vocap group about explosions echoing near their houses.
Realizing that Kiev itself was attacked, and not the first front line in the east of the country - the shock was huge.
There is no safe place in Ukraine anymore.
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Residents are most afraid that the electricity and internet will disappear - then we would really be isolated.
The fear that the bridges over the Dnieper River will be bombed is also growing, which would lead to the division of Kyiv into eastern and western parts.
The explosions lasted about 30 minutes.
I helped my ten-year-old son get dressed. We had breakfast, sitting as far away from the window as possible, but he was so scared that he threw up.
We took candles and a few bottles of water and went down to the basement, our shelter if the situation worsened.
There are huge queues in front of supermarkets near my house, as well as in front of ATMs - many of them are out of money. And some gas stations are out of fuel, they are closed.
There is an atmosphere of panic, now that we know the whole country is under attack.
The roads leading out of the city are blocked by cars, but the journey is dangerous - sitting in cars in long and slow queues, you could run out of gas far from home.
The trains are running, but there are many people trying to board. Ukrainian airspace was closed by the decision to introduce a state of war declared by President Zelensky.
Not only military targets were destroyed - we receive photos of residential buildings in many cities that were hit by the attack.
Russian bombing affects all areas of the country. Even in Lviv, near the Polish border, sirens were heard this morning, and our journalist had to go to a shelter.
A colleague took his family out of Kiev in the hope of escaping the airstrikes. The interior of Ukraine may be safer than the city itself, but in a country under attack from the north, east and south, nowhere is truly safe anymore.
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