Day 447

Hypersonic baloney

There are lots of reasons why you shouldn’t pay attention to foreign flaks in Kyiv. However, their tweets during Russian missile attacks on the capital do provide some comic relief.

Thanks, Iuliia. Go back to sleep. Brush up on your English superlatives if you ever wake up.

The clinking sounds some of you might have heard early this morning were small (relatively light) pieces of aluminum hitting the pavement. Preliminarily, at least four hypersonic rockets were shot down. Some debris landed in the zoo near Kyiv Polytechnic University. We hope no animals were injured.

Disjointed bushwa has become a feature — not a bug — of war reporting from Kyiv, which became a magnet for Ukraine’s well-wishers after handwashing experts from America’s embassy returned to the capital last May¹.