It's bad and getting worse (edited to add more)

From a friend:

Attention
💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛

Talked to dad

Russian tanks are in the village.

They came, took whatever they wanted from local stores. They took local hostages, older folks to use them to sit on the tanks under gun points so Ukrainian resistance don’t throw Molotov cocktails at those tanks. Someone knocked in their door at night, they hid in the hallway away from windows, and little Nick their grandson was whispering are we going to get killed tonight.

Electricity is out, so no heat and no water, it’s 32 Fahrenheit outside. There are 2 roads to Kiev - one is destroyed and another one under fire as we speak. Hit or miss. New reality for regular Ukrainian family in 21st century.

This is a simple example. Thankfully they are not buried alive under some smoking ruins left after the air strikes. Kharkov is in ruins, no one is safe. It’s real war.

Try to swallow this

The world has to hear the truth about this peacemaking operation.

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More from my friend:

My ancestors on this earth survived the revolution, fascist occupation, Stalinist repressions, hunger and deprivation.
But my city is one and a half thousand years old and it will survive this war too!
Kyiv was the capital of Russia when there was a swamp in the place of Moscow.
My city, my people - will survive and will only become stronger.
But the Muscovite kingdom came to an inglorious end.