Russia struck Kyiv. Russia is standing in lines for gasoline, Crimea occupied by Russia is blocked by drones, Russian trucks are burning on the highways of Priazovye, Wildberries warehouses are burning, refineries are regularly catching fire…
If Crimea were not blocked in Russia, it would have hit Kyiv today.
If refineries were not burning in Russia, it would have hit Kyiv today.
If Wildberries warehouses were not on fire, it would have hit Kyiv today.
It would have hit Kyiv much harder than it actually did today because Moscow would have had more resources and components to produce missiles. This is obvious. But not to everyone.
Every time I write about the successes of the Ukrainian army, they come—the commentators who start shedding crocodile tears, saying, a-a-a-a! We have it bad too! Our economy is collapsing! Our grain carriers are blocked in Odesa… We have…
Let me remind those who have forgotten, we are at war. We are at war, which started when Russian cutthroats from the airborne forces seized our Crimea, and we spent almost a month singing songs and defending ourselves with batons.
We are at war because on February 24, 2022, Moscow launched a missile-bomb strike on our territories, after which columns of regular Russian army personnel openly invaded Ukraine.
Moscow is not shooting at Kyiv for the first time. The occupiers are not hitting civilian buildings for the first time. Russia is not setting fire to Nova Poshta warehouses, gas stations, and grain terminals for the first time.
Because Moscow is ready to stop the war voluntarily on one condition only—we capitulate. We give up the army, our history, and independent foreign policy and become Russia’s satellite. Simply put, we give up Independence because changing the flag and anthem will then be a matter of time.
There is only one reason this war started—we exist. And Russia wants us to disappear. To become plants. A gathering of people without memory or their own path, whom it will be very easy to assimilate into the empire.
And that’s it.
I don’t know who you have to be to not understand this. I have no questions for Moscow bots, Putin-lovers, and draft dodgers who don’t care who is in power as long as the sausage is there. It’s clear with these types; they will gladly run to the strongest, and they currently consider Putin the strongest.
I cannot understand the people who whine and complain—and yet consider themselves patriots.
It’s not coming in response to anything. The only reason they’re hitting us is—we exist. We have not disappeared into the vortex of history but preserved our history, culture, and language. That’s why missiles are flying at us.
There are simply no other reasons. And there is no other way except to force Moscow to peace on our terms. That means fighting. Grit your teeth, push through the fatigue – and fight. Just like every Ukrainian soldier fights on the front lines when they go into battle.
Five years is enough time to understand this. I don’t know who you have to be to still claim that we are being attacked “in response to something.” Probably not a Ukrainian.
Textbooks for children are burning. Warehouses with food are burning. Meat plants, dairies, offices, clothing. Trucks with sausages are hit – and they are scattered along the highway. Vehicles that deliver bread are hit. This is particularly about my Kharkiv. And I can only assume, is this already the Russians indiscriminately covering us with carpet bombings to destroy our economy (even more so) or to destroy our remnants of “normality” in life? Probably both.
Regarding “normality,” yes, it’s impossible to endlessly adjust to even greater chaos. Exhaustion will eventually reach almost everyone. On the other hand, our psyche’s defense mechanisms have already taught us to ask the question “what needs to be done to fix this?” The feeling of complete helplessness has disappeared (not on the level of an individual person, but on the level of the community, city, and country).
We have already passed the stage of acute shock. The Russians will only go through it. Russia is large, many warehouses. The economy is shaky. Greatness is a construction that does not have a truly solid foundation. “What needs to be done” is the Ukrainian way that organizes itself even without government involvement. The Russian way is “what is this? why? who will help us?” It’s the expectation that someone will fix it for them. Not them – for them. It’s coming to the fact that the people themselves are fundamentally incapable of fixing things, and the authorities won’t be able to. Our “curves” are now going in different directions.
For me personally, the worst has already been. Russian military columns passed by my house. “Clear the road!” has already sounded. Doors almost flew off from the proximity of MLRS. For many Ukrainians, the worst is already known in appearance. Torture, destruction, rape, maiming, the loss of the closest ones. Then there was a transformation into “bake bread the morning after a missile strike,” “demine a field to sow wheat,” “rebuild a house to regain a roof over one’s head.” This is chaos that at least partially transforms into action.
As for the Russians, in the war of attrition, they will continue to play the usual role of the victim. Even attacking Ukraine, they are victims, their deep motives are precisely such: a nation that has not happened. A state that is not self-sufficient.
And we will bake bread. And print books.
On the cover: Explosion crater in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, August 1, 2026. Photo: social networks
