Russian terror bombing arrives in Ukraine

It depends on when you are reading this but it’s possible that as you do, Russian missiles are still falling on Kyiv. The Ukrainian capital, and cities across the country, have been subject to a devastating missile barrage last night and this morning.

The attacks on Kyiv are intended to create nothing but terror. Missiles fell in succession on civilian areas: children’s playgrounds, ordinary business areas, office buildings. They arrived at the height of the morning rush hour, hoping to kill as many commuters and families as possible, and the drumbeat has continued after that.

Residential and business areas of the Ukrainian capital that had broadly been spared missile and drone attack are now targets.

Yesterday, it was the turn of Zaporizhzhia – a city Russia claims to control as the de jure capital of its newly ‘annexed’ Zaporozhye Oblast – to be bombed. There, the missiles hit apartment buildings over and over again.