Photo of the day: The new normal

A woman reads a book while civilians take shelter inside a metro station during an air raid alert in the centre of Kyiv on December 16, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A fresh barrage of Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine early on December 16, 2022, cutting water and electricity in major cities and piling pressure on Ukraine's grid with temperatures below freezing.

Image: Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP