The enormity of the attacks on Ukraine is impossible to grasp. Let me show you the horror of a single day

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/14/ukraine-kyiv-drones-vladimir-putin-missiles
Oleksandr Mykhed

The rumble, the explosions and the deaths: they are so frequent that they seem normal. It’s a fight to protect our homes, our cities and the psyche

Civilians and rescue workers outside a destroyed apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, 31 July 2025. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Day 1,254 of the invasion; 31 July 2025, Kyiv, 4.30am. The air-raid alarm started again just a moment ago. I wake up from the roar and rumble of rockets. It’s a sound that makes you want to flee in primeval terror.

Time slows down. I roll over on the bed, embrace my girlfriend Dasha, make another half-turn and we drop down softly to the floor. I am not thinking or reflecting, I’m guided by instinct – move away from the windows, position our silhouettes as low as possible. I cover Dasha with my body. All she has time to ask for is: “The doggie? Where’s the dog?” From under the bed, we can hear the rustling of our old chihuahua’s paws.

Five Iskander-K cruise missiles are falling from the sky. One after another. Like gigantic knives, striking between the ribs of the city. A deadly force that cannot be stopped. The sounds of explosions are coming from different parts of the city, enveloping us in total helplessness. There is no hiding from this.

Two hours before the shelling, I laid out my clothes and placed my emergency bag in the hallway. Just in case. It was not a rational decision based, for example, on warnings from analytical groups. But you can feel the shelling coming. It will happen today or tomorrow. Thousands of little Russians, who “have no influence over anything”, and will repeat at the tribunals the convenient narrative that this is “Putin’s war”, have already manufactured new Shahed drones and missiles.

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[JustAnotherGen]

1. I feel like the innocent people of Ukraine

Are entirely forgotten. Sudan is the forgotten of the developing world. Ukraine is the forgotten of the developed world.

[mcar]

7. Yes. It's like suffering doesn't matter

if there's not good social media about it.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Truth

[erronis]

2. More from this piece in The Guardian. Horrifying

Statistics show that last year, during July 2024, Russia launched just over 400 drones over Ukraine. A year later, in July of this year, it launched more than 6,400 drones and missiles. Looking at the infographic that visualises this comparison and trying to comprehend the absurd figure of an increase of almost 1,380%, I am lost for words.

Now there are so many Russian drones that they are dismantling the smallest components of infrastructure. It feels like if this were a game of Battleship they would have already destroyed the two-deck ships. And, of course, they are deliberately destroying residential high-rise buildings with civilians inside.

We know exactly when the situation got worse: after Donald Trump came to power. For the Trump 2.0 world, an unsubstantiated promise of peace is already equivalent to peace. But the war did not stop for a moment. It got worse. The Ukrainian data journalism website Texty.org.ua analysed Russian missile and Shahed strikes on 12 frontline and neighbouring regions after Trump’s inauguration. Two months before, the Odesa region was struck twice; two months after, there were more than two dozen strikes.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. We told folks

But a lot of magapubs are Russian lovers.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. It's like Gaza, only at a slower pace, because it's over a much larger area and

being carried out by a relatively weaker country against a country with a functioning military and some defenses. The intent though is fully genocidal, and russia will get there in the end unless there's a radical change in terms of support for Ukraine.

This is a genocide that our country is now fully complicit in.

[yardwork]

4. People who helped elect Trump have a lot to answer for.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Many of the refugees here are running out of time

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SrjjVPaFh2s

[mcar]

6. Russia has kidnapped 20,000 children and

shipped them to Russia for indoctrinating. Why aren't there protests about this?