At about 10pm on Wednesday (Feb 23) night (4am on Thursday, Singapore time), Singaporean Ix Shen was standing on his balcony in Kyiv, Ukraine, when he heard a loud explosion in the distance.
It was the first time he had heard such a sound, and he knew that the threat of war was close.
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