⚡Update: 12 killed, 18 injured in Kyiv, including children, as Russia's barrage of attacks enters 6th day. Six of those killed were Ukrainian Railways employees who died when a ballistic missile hit a "depot and other railway facilities," Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, Chairman of the Board of Ukrainian Railways, said in a post on social media. kyivindependent.com/russia-a…

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov hits the nail on the head, as usual: "Most of our citizens understand what we are fighting for. And it seems that we would like — as some say — for everything to go back to the way it was as soon as possible, so as not to be afraid of drones, but to leave the Nazi regime in power. This is precisely what the West is now seeking and what Zelensky is begging for, saying: let's have a truce, there's no need for any political agreements, and then we will discuss what comes next. What would this mean? It would mean that we would agree to a ceasefire while leaving in place the Nazi regime on the other side of the line of contact — the only regime in the world that has legally banned an entire language, and an official UN language at that, in education, in the media, in culture, everywhere; a regime that has banned the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. These are the metastases of Nazism that have been growing in Europe in recent years and have reached Ukraine. Through a ceasefire, we would strengthen these Nazi metastases and allow them to develop further. This would be a betrayal of what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers did when they defeated Nazism — forever, as we thought at the time. But it turned out to be hard to kill."