They Went After Children and the People Saving Them
They Went After Children and the People Saving Them Russia’s overnight assault turned homes, hospitals, and rescue workers into targets. Lev Parnas Feb 13 I wish I were writing to you with better news. But last night Russia again showed the world exactly how it wages war against Ukraine — by hunting the people who are simply trying to live. In Odesa, a high-rise apartment building went up in flames. Energy infrastructure burned. A market burned. A supermarket burned. Families who went to sleep in their beds woke up choking on smoke, running down dark stairwells, clutching children, praying they would make it outside alive. In Dnipro, missiles and drones tore into residential neighborhoods. Homes ripped apart. Cars destroyed. Streets where life existed only hours before turned into scenes of terror. And again, the words we must never get used to: children were injured. A four-year-old girl. An infant. An infant. Before they can speak, before they can understand what war even is, they ar...