Russia unleashes drones, missiles on Ukraine in second massive air strike in two days
3 Hundreds of Russian drones and more than a dozen missiles rained down on the Ukrainian capital early on Thursday, according to reports.
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3 Two people were killed in the second massive air strike on Ukraine in two days as Kyiv seeks critical aid from its partners at a meeting in Rome, reports say.
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3 Smoke rises from an apartment building that was damaged during Russian drone and missile strikes, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 10.
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Nineteen people were wounded, and damage was reported in nearly every district of Kyiv in the attack.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the assault had involved around 400 drones and 18 missiles, primarily targeting the capital.
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Others who fled Mariupol are dealing with similar feelings -- feeling the pull of their hometown, but knowing that the city will never be the same while under Russian control. Maria, whose name was also changed at her request for security reasons, a young student of the one of the universities in Vancouver, said she has no plans to return to Mariupol under the Russian occupation. Her big family also managed to get out from the besieged city through Russia, and most of its members live now in Germany. But her grandmother returned to Mariupol after she learnt that her husband had survived the Russian invasion. "When she was going with us to Germany, she was sure that he was killed, as the area he lived in was under heavy Russian shelling," said Maria: "Grandma was hoping to get him out of Mariupol as well, but when he refused, and she stayed with him." Due to her academic contacts and willingness to continue her education in social studies, she went to Sweden for one year and then moved to Canada, although Vancouver itself was some kind of terra incognita for her. Maria has been living in Vancouver since late 2023. "The main difference between Mariupol and Vancouver, as I see it, is the way the everyday life is unfolding there and here. Despite the hard work in Mariupol, I had much more connections with the city, more touching points with it and the people around. Mariupol, as she remembered it, is a city of contradictions in its everyday life: "On the one hand, you have the sea and the beach that symbolize freedom for me in some way, but on the other hand, this freedom was limited to the role of a big industrial center when your whole life was organized around work on these huge factories," explained Maria. For Maria, the whole eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, which is now mostly occupied by Russia, used to be a place for everyone, where anybody could melt into the crowd. "One might feel freedom there in some sense that is hard to feel for me in here, in Vancouver -- it was a feeling, that in order to keep living and stay in touch with the rest of the world you do not have to put in a lot of efforts," said Maria. One of her most beautiful memories of Mariupol, as she described it, was when she was walking along near the drama theater during the last days before the war broke out in February 2022: "That day, there city was covered with a magnificent fog and that picture still stands in front of my eyes." In several days that theater would be destroyed -- possibly by the Russian bomb, despite the hundreds of civilians were hiding in its basement and word "children" displayed in huge letters on the ground in its front. Now, the Russians are trying to restore the theater -- probably, to make it one of many new signs to demonstrate the qualitative transformations in the war-torn city, according to local reports that cite former Ukrainian city officials. But Maria said she is more concerned with the fate of people, not buildings. She tries to spend as much time as possible with her mother, brother and other family members, using every opportunity to fly to Germany. "Maybe, it is because I value our survival in Mariupol so much -- at some point, I was so afraid that my family is going to die there, and I will be the only survivor," she said. The girl is also staying in touch with her grandmother and step-grandfather. Although she communicates with them over the social media almost every day, it is hard for her to understand how it feels to be in Mariupol right now. According to Maria, she often feels the that her grandmother is under pressure to censor herself. "She used to be totally different person -- very vocal about politics, always having her opinion on everything, willing to share her thoughts, arguments, and concerns with others, and now I am witnessing some changes in her," Maria said. For example, her grandmother is justifying a need to obtain a Russian passport to gain access to the health care and social services, said Maria. And when Maria was asking her about the procedures she had undergone, Maria said, her grandmother started answering the question but, at some point, stopped, saying that it might be dangerous for her to talk about it, and she was afraid to reveal some sensitive information. "That is such a contrast to hear almost nothing from a person who used to comment on every political issue," said Maria. But she is not judging her relatives under the Russian occupation as she completely understands the origins of this self-censorship. "In my opinion, it is some kind of individual way to accepting this new reality," said Maria. According to her, people just do not fully understand the risk of living in the city if it stays under occupation. "My grandmother and her husband are considering the possibility of our family reunion and my return to Mariupol someday, but that is only their perspective, their anticipation," she said. Maria insists, that the only chance for them to meet now is somewhere in a different country, where they can go without a Ukrainian passport. "It is hard for them to understand why it is impossible for me to visit them in Mariupol, why I cannot simply return to my native city while it is occupied by the Russians," she said. In her dreams Maria sometimes is back to Mariupol but not to the times of peace before the war: "There are only Russian border guards in my obsessive dreams or my city already under the Russian occupation. It is very difficult to explain why, but I see them quite often as I sleep. For instance, in my dream I am on the train heading to Finland from Germany, but, at some point, the passengers are being told that from now on the train will be going through the Russian territory and that is how I meet Russian border guards once again."
