Late last night, Russia attacked Kharkiv yet again - a residential building. Six people were injured.
I'd like to share an excerpt from a text written by a Kharkiv journalist Anna Gin. I think it speaks volumes about Kharkiv residents and their current mood. The text was written after Russia damaged Kharkiv's TV tower.
"This is rather an emotional pressure on Kharkiv citizens.
Which, in general, causes nothing but a smirk. Who do you want to scare? Us, living twelve hours a day without electricity and twenty-four under the "threat of a missile strike"?
I have people in my apartment's building chat exchanging links to all sorts of gadgets that save the lives of fish when the air supply to the aquarium is cut off.
Yeah, the city has a big energy problem.
But all the stores, pharmacies, and even beauty salons have generators out on the street, and charging devices with them. Teenagers with tablets swarm at each such generator, they have classes. Online school or college.
I was out with my dog on Friday, and a kid in the entrance hall was answering a chemistry teacher's questions. He was yelling something about the valency of sodium. He was shouting because the damn generator is rumbling very loudly. I smiled.
I swear, I have never heard any talk in Kharkiv about "peace at any price" or any other such bullsh*t from the Kremlin's instructions. Not in lines, not at gas stations, not at the dog walk.
Every missile strike unites us. We become friendlier, more cohesive.
There's no way to break us. We can't be broken.
I miss my dad very much. The war took him. My city is being destroyed every day. But I feel nothing but fatigue and hatred for the enemy. No-thing.
You're beating the wind."
📹: Radio Svoboda