Good evening from Kiev.

There is much report tonight, but also much to reflect on.

Two months in a day ago, Russian forces rolled into the country, expecting that by now

we'd all be reporting from Occupy Kiev.

The fact that we're not says so much about the endurance and bravery of the Ukrainian people.

And the reminders are everywhere.

As are the signs that those two qualities are about to get pushed even harder, because

some things are beyond endurance, such as the killing of a mother named Valerie or a

three-month-old baby girl Kira, Kira's grandmother and five others in a cruise missile strike

on Odessa over the weekend.

In a social media post, a few weeks ago, before the invasion, Valerie wrote that she had

just found a new level of happiness.

Her death, like that of thousands of Ukrainians over the last two months, was neither accidental,

nor incidental to any military objective.

It simply was.

Because Russians have been targeting residential areas from the beginning of this invasion.

It is more than anything this war is defining characteristic, targeting civilians.

Or in this case, in your peeing, targeting civilians, simply trying to flee the bombardment

of family here.

Evacuate at a train station in Kramataurus, children in a well-marked bomb shelter in

Marriopoul.

Countless civilians in the more than 100 hospitals and health facilities hit so far.

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