As of this writing—that is, now—another nationwide Russian air attack is underway, targeting cities in western regions. The alarm for Kyiv just went off again. Hits have been reported in Ternopil and the national power company is turning off the lights.
It looks like a cruise missile creamed a residential building there.
Kharkiv was also smashed last night.
The 6-minute read over at The Economist about back-office shenanigans on in Kyiv understates the tedium of following political developments presaged by the cardboard kids this summer.
No one is very happy with Z, who has been jetsetting around Europe looking for weapons and hashing out peace plans. This morning he arrived in Ankara.
Calls for the president’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak to resign are getting louder, but that’s a small fix. A little dark cloud is also hanging over the head of National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov, who greets Z in this vid. The future of Deputy PM Oleksiy Kuleba is also in the balance.
