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Keeping the name for now because a) still don't know what to choose 2) want to have some time for adjustment

I don't feel okay mentally right now so I'll be brief: on the night between the 18th and the 19th of July there was a massive ballistic air raid on Kyiv, my city. I think a total of 50 ballistic missiles were launched towards my city and, as you may know, there are no ways to defend ourselves against them at the moment. There are Patriot air defense complexes, but we don't have any ammunition for them.

With ballistic missiles there's only 1-3 minutes from the moment they're launched to the moment they hit the target. Tonight's targets were shopping malls and civil apartment blocks. Including my very neighborhood and my very street.

We had no time to run to the shelter (an underground parking lot of the building next door) so we huddled in the hallway of our flat, away from the windows. The explosions were so so loud, I heard the glass in the windows shake from the explosion wave. For a second I thought the missiles hit our building directly or broke the windows.

I made my family run in our pajamas in the SHORT break of 2 minutes between the missile launches. That's how bad it was. I noticed my mom, my dog and my sibling getting ahead and thought to myself that if I died and they got to safety first, I would be happy. We all got to the shelter and could barely handle the shock.

I felt like I would never ever ever sleep or eat again, that I never wanted to do anything in my life ever again.

My street is a short one, around 20 buildings in total. A missile landed 300 meters away from our home and all apartment blocks except ours got their windows blown out. A newly reconstructed historical building burned down. Our building was okay only because other buildings took the shockwave on themselves.

Kyiv. According to monitoring sources, Russia fired about 40 ballistic missiles—including Iskander-M, Zircon, and S-400 models—at Kyiv over the course of approximately 40 minutes, ZN.ua reports.

This is the largest number of ballistic missiles fired at the capital since the start of the full-scale war.

One person is reported dead and 13 injured. Once again, it’s the long-suffering Lukyanivka neighborhood, where my sister lives💔 It’s always terrifying to read about the Shevchenkivskyi district.

Russian forces carried out 17 strikes on Kramatorsk over the past day, 10 of which were with aerial bombs, according to the Donetsk Regional Police.

The Russians attacked Druzhkivka with a KAB-250 bomb and FPV drones.

Russian forces struck Sloviansk with a KAB-250 bomb and three UAVs. Photo: Donetsk Regional Police

A Russian drone struck a passenger train in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to Ukrzaliznytsia. Passengers were evacuated in time and will be transported to the city by bus. Preliminary reports indicate that the conductor sustained minor injuries.

Photo: Ukrzaliznytsia

The Russian Armed Forces struck Sumy with seven KAB bombs. So far, three people are known to have been injured; they have been hospitalized. At least one person may be trapped under the rubble, and a rescue operation is underway, according to Grigorov, the head of the regional military administration.

Hundreds of thousands of dead putins sitting on the border cause russia doesn't want them back for failing in their mission to destroy Ukraine and rape and torture every Ukr.

Hundreds, thousands of putins stealing Ukrainian children and indoctrinating them into 'russia is best. russia is king. Ukraine is nothing'.

Hundreds, thousands of putins looting Ukr artworks and artifacts and just plain old every day items and sending them back to the putins back in russia.

Thousands of mini putins bragging to their families about the terror and murder they are inflicting on innocent civilians.

One is dragged reluctantly, almost with a sense of horror, to write about the men and women who see themselves as the guardians of sport but who are involved in some grotesque competition of their own. Who can be more unscrupulous? Who can more cravenly distort what sport is supposed to be about? Who can more graphically place venality, power and greed above whatever ideals still exist in these invented games?

It was seen as a watershed when Gianni Infantino took a call from Donald Trump objecting to the suspension of a star player (although admitting his ignorance of the meaning of a red card), only for Fifa to overturn the suspension. This wasn’t “merely” Fifa awarding competitions to nations on the basis of rigged votes but a decision that could affect what happens on the field of play....

...But, then, not to be outdone, up pops the IOC to lift its suspension on Russia, a nation that has not just systematically doped its athletes but also wages a pitiless and illegal war on a neighbour, bombing indiscriminately, raping women, mutilating prisoners and kidnapping children. The IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, a woman who curried favour with the Mugabe regime, revealing the absence of any moral compass, justified this on sporting grounds, in effect saying that it isn’t fair for Russian athletes to be disadvantaged by the actions of their government.

I felt my stomach lurch when reading this pretext for the readmission, the naked inversion of ethical logic, the smooth attempt to turn right into wrong. Russian athletes must not be disadvantaged by their government, she says, while Ukrainian athletes are bombed, targeted and subject to mass murder by the same government? Russian athletes can return to the grand stage — their victories milked by this century’s Hitler — while the sporting infrastructure of Ukraine is bombed to smithereens, its facilities destroyed, its talent wiped out?

Does Coventry have the faintest idea what is happening in the world she claims to speak for? Does she know about Yuri Orlov, a hockey player who earlier this year was killed after his home was struck by a Russian missile; Victoria Kotlyarova, a Ukrainian footballer who was killed in a devastating attack on Kyiv; Arina Shnabska, a brilliant young taekwondo fighter who was killed in Kherson when Russian occupiers opened fire?...

...Let us be clear: Russia will have an advantage on the field of play because they are wiping out the competition, even discounting that the head of their anti-doping commission is alleged to have been involved in covering up failed tests.

he doesn't have to be from moscow except for the reason that this is the only city in eastern Europe westernes consider dark and mysterious...

the lost potential is sad.

The captain of one of the vessels was killed in the attack. The crew of 11 people was evacuated to shore, three of them were injured.