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Residential buildings, enterprises, administrative buildings, cars and other infrastructure were damaged.

The body of a child born in 2023 was recovered from under the rubble.

In the Darnytskyi district, a dormitory building, several non-residential premises, a service station and cars parked near a residential building were damaged by falling UAV and missile debris.

In the Obolonskyi district, a UAV hit a private 1-story residential building. Also, a UAV hit a 3-story residential building near an open area, causing a fire. Also in the same district, a fire broke out in a 16-story residential building.

In the Shevchenkivskyi district, two residential buildings and an office center were damaged by falling missile debris, and cars in the parking lot also caught fire. Fires also broke out in two schools due to falling debris.

In the Dnipro district, debris fell on the roof of a residential building. Also, a fire broke out as a result of a UAV hitting a private residential building. In addition, a warehouse building and a garage cooperative were damaged.

In Svyatoshynskyi district, missile fragments fell on a 1-story private residential building.

In Podilskyi, debris fell on the territory of non-residential buildings.

In Holosiivskyi district, missile fragments fell on the roof of a 24-story residential building.

In Desnyanskyi, UAV fragments hit a supermarket and shopping center building.

In Solomyanskyi district, a UAV hit the 23rd floor of a 24-story residential building, causing a fire and destruction of structural elements.

In Pecherskyi district, a fire broke out as a result of a UAV hitting a 20-story residential building.

If you care about humanity you should care about Ukrainians too and russia has launched one of the bloodiest, cruelest and heaviest attacks on Ukraine’s capital today

In the middle of the night, when people are sleeping, they started bombing civilian districts with all types of missiles

Lots of buldings damaged, many injured and yet unknown about the exact number of casualties

One of the biggest cities in Europe is all on fire being bombed to ground all because the little goblin and his ppl don’t want Ukraine to exist anymore

They want us to sign a peace deal that’s essentially capitulation and give up everything we have, what we fought for

Please, just look up information and spread the word

I know the news barely talk about Ukraine anymore, especially in the US. I know because I live here and I got asked about what’s the situation back home for the first time in MONTHS recently, in months… and every time I don’t know what to say because it is bad, still really really bad and people need help

I have friends in Kyiv, I am constantly anxious about them. I have my family and friends in other cities and I am constantly worried and scared for them

Russia has just bombarded Kyiv with the heaviest ballistic missile bombardment since the start of the full scale invasion in February 2022. This includes two 'Oreshnik' missiles, normally configured to carry nuclear warheads. When not carrying a nuclear payload, they are long-range, but have mediocre accuracy. Even if aimed at a military target, the Russians know that massive collateral damage will be caused by submunitions. Many high-rise housing blocks have been hit. The use of Oreshniks is intended to send a message of terror and intimidation to civilians, but after years of bombardment with drones and other missiles, Ukraine is unlikely to yield.

Casualties are likely to be high and updates will trickle through during the day. Existing interceptor drones are good at stopping Russian 'Shahed' drones, but much less capable at stopping missiles.

"Overnight, russia carried out one of the largest terrorist attacks on Kyiv with around 600 drones, many dozens of ballistic, air-ballistic, and cruise missiles, and a dummy IRBM. Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Kropyvnytskyi, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, and Zhytomyr regions were also under attack. Multiple shopping centers, apartment blocks and residential areas destroyed. Also, a reported use of Oreshnik on Bila Tserkva near Kyiv, The casualty count is just beginning to trickle in."

"National museum of Chornobyl in the historical building has been destroyed during the one of the biggest russian attack on the Kyiv."

Happy Vyshyvanka Day! I remembered our headcanons withfriend on what areas ponies are from and decided to draw a small series of them

today, on 18th of may in 1944, crimean tatar people were deported by the soviet government from our homeland crimean peninsula, our only homeland. we call it sürgün or sürgünlik which directly means exile.

the official reason for the collective punishment of the soviet government was "collaboration with the army of nazi germany during occupation of crimea". except crimean tatar people, another nine minorities were "punished" as well. (according to wikipedia, only 20,000 of crimean tatars agreed to work with germany. it opposes to 40,000 crimean tatars that were fighting against fascism and nazism in the red army.)

within three days around 192,000 of crimean tatar people have been transferred in cattle trains to central asia and ural mountains. mostly to uzbek soviet socialist republic. around 8,000 of them perished due lack of food and water and harsh living conditions in exile. houses, farms, acres of land were left abandoned.

we were allowed to return to our homeland only in the late 80s - early 90s. crimean tatars — my family included — had to rebuild everything almost from scratch during the 90s. in 2004 we made 12% of the crimean population. mind you, before exile we were 20% and before russian empire annexation of crimea in 1783 we were 90% of population. after annexation in 2014, we make only 10%.

there are many theories why the soviet government actually deported us. but it's confirmed that this is a genocide, an ethnical cleansing of autochthonous population of crimea.

currently sürgünlik is recognised as genocide by ukraine, lithuania, latvia, poland, the czech republic, canada and the netherlands.

this tragedy shaped us, this is the trauma my people carry throughout the generations. right now russian federation attempts to erase us and our heritage all over again. in crimea, crimean tatars are getting arrested, accused of being "terrorists". our national schools are closing, general education schools are slowly getting rid of our native language lessons.

half of my generation can't speak and think in our language as it gets forgotten and our dialects get lost.

so no, russian war against ukraine isn't just about ukraine for me. it's about my people's identity not being erased by the imperialist state we suffer from since the 18th century, it's about bringing them to historical justice and condemning their actions (not only towards crimean tatars, but towards everyone they've harmed)

In one of the torture chambers, the russian occupiers had set up a so-called ‘children’s cell’ which consisted of nothing more than three thin foam mats on the floor.

This was announced at a press conference by Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.

“They cut with knives and burned parts of the body”

The children were given water every other day, were barely fed and subjected to psychological pressure: they were told that their parents had abandoned them.

Those who were held in these torture chambers testify that everyone knew the children were being tortured.

One boy spent 90 days in one of the torture chambers. He was cut with a knife, had parts of his body burned, and was taken out to be shot, they fired over his head.

"Both sides are to blame"

"This doesn't mean we support the war"

"I love Ukrainians, I have relatives there"

"It doesn't matter who wins"

To this typical russian, it doesn't matter if russia occupies Ukraine, if russia kills and rapes and decapitates their relatives. Because that's what russians do to everyone. I repeat, everyone. Prorussians and ethnical russians in Mariupol and Donbas, who were cheering on "the liberators" were the first to die from russian invaders, btw. Russia has invaded Ukraine, russians have raped hundreds of women and CHILDREN - but Ukraine is "also to blame"?

People who befriend russians - this is whom you are befriending. This is what they will do to you. People, who consume russian content - your soul is getting cancer. Because russians are cancer, nothing more, nothing less.

There may be people under the rubble. The search and rescue operation continues.

Residential buildings and civil infrastructure in several districts of the city were damaged.

In Darnytskyi district, a multi-storey residential building was hit, where structures collapsed. 10 people were rescued, emergency rescue operations are underway to search for the injured. At another address, debris was recorded falling onto the territory of a gas station.

In Solomyanskyi district, a parked car caught fire.

In Holosiivskyi district, debris was found on the roadway.

In Svyatoshynskyi district, debris was recorded falling onto an open area.

In Obolonskyi district, debris was recorded falling onto an open area and onto a three-storey parking lot and business center. Also at another address, debris damaged an apartment in a residential building on the 12th floor and hit a 25th-story unfinished building, there are injured people.

In the Dniprovskyi district, as a result of the attack, a fire broke out on the roof of a five-story residential building. One injured person was found. At another, a UAV hit a five-story building. Damage to a private residential building was also recorded. At another address, as a result of the attack, several garages and a parked car caught fire.

Search and rescue operations are ongoing.

This is the fifth person killed in the Russian night attack on the capital.

Clearing the rubble of a damaged building in the Darnytskyi district of the capital continues.

The search and rescue operation has been completed. It lasted more than 28 hours.