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The Russians attacked a kindergarten!
Last night, russian terrorists attacked Ukraine with cruise missiles and S-300 missiles.
The Ukrainian air defense destroyed 16 targets.
Houses and a kindergarten were hit in Lviv and its suburbs.
Three people were killed in Lutsk, Volyn region. pic.twitter.com/TWlErVjPpD— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 15, 2023
During today's russian attack on Lviv, one of the missiles hit the yard of the "Kazka" kindergarten, creating a 9-meter-deep crater. The explosion caused significant damage to both the kindergarten and the surrounding buildings.
📷Roman Baluk / Reuters pic.twitter.com/aecvw6teIJ
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 15, 2023
That’s a doll, but it could have easily been a child!
A russian missile struck one of Dnipro's best sports facilities last night. Another convincing demonstration that the russians have nothing to do at the Olympic Games in Paris. Assassins and terrorists have their own bloody competitions. pic.twitter.com/4TECgTgAUf
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 15, 2023
We’re back to where we were the other day. I have yet to see anything even close to a legitimate target of the Russian air strikes be reported in months. Every target is civilian. Residences, dual use commercial and residential, restaurants and hotels where reporters are staying or working from, schools, playgrounds, food storage facilities, other civilian commercial facilities. This is Russian state terrorism in support of a strategy of genocide. As I wrote way, way back in the first weeks of the war, Putin’s view of Ukraine is that if he can’t have it, then no one can have it. Including the Ukrainians. So he will level it and then rebuild and repopulate it through population transfer. Just the way the Soviets moved populations around. Without more air defense, we are right back to the clip I embedded at the time from The Last of the Mohicans:
The situation is that his guns are bigger than mine and he has more of them. We keep our heads down while his troops dig 30 yards of trench a day. When those trenches are 200 yards from the fort and within range, he’ll bring in his 15-inch mortars, lob explosive rounds over our walls, and pound us to dust.
Putin has been slowly pounding Ukraine and the Ukrainians to dust. To terrorize them. To demoralize them. To try to break their will. While none of that is happening, he is able to destroy a lot of civilian infrastructure and kill a lot of non-combatants. I know I keep asking and I know there’s no answer because the people that need the question posed to them aren’t reading this site, but at what point is Never Again actually going to mean Never Again?
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.
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