On August 28, 2025, Russia carried out the next massive shelling of Ukraine, launching several waves of missiles and drones. The Ukrainian Air Defense Forces worked on the verge of their capabilities, which saved many lives. However, direct hits, fires, and falls of debris were recorded. According to official Ukrainian persons, the consequences were recorded in more than 20 locations in different areas of the capital and regions of Ukraine.
Ukrainian rescuers continue to search for people under the rubble. As of 11:30 (in Kyiv and Nicosia), data on the death of 14 people, including 3 children, were confirmed.
The children who were killed are not an error in the missiles’ targeting, but it is a direct and approving signature of Moscow and Russians under their policy of terror against Ukrainians.
Gerontocratic conversations about “compromises”, the next “Kremlin’s proposals”, verbal suction of joint energy projects in the Arctic, in the Far East, when children are dying, this is nothing more than the summit of cynicism and hypocrisy.
All the civilized World and the partners of Ukraine should finally understand that every Iranian or Russian drone, the North Korean missile, weapons created using European, American, Chinese components are a matter of life and death for Ukrainians, Ukrainian children.
Russians are systematically destroying in Ukraine the civilian infrastructure and everything that allows the country to survive. The typical consequences of Russian shelling are destroyed schools, kindergartens, business offices, the burning railway passenger depot, and damaged high-speed passenger trains, private houses, mutilated cars, and thousands of broken windows.
For Russia, Russians who are making money in the war, this is a battle against Ukrainian cities and villages. The Iranian or Russian drone, the North Korean missile, weapons created using European, American, and Chinese components kill children, destroy houses, social and civilian transport infrastructure, and civil business.
A night shelling of Kyiv and Ukraine, this is an open demonstration by Moscow and Russians who are earning in the war what they want to destroy Ukraine, break the spirit of the Ukrainians.
Their goal is to “push the peace” on their conditions, using terror, the tactic of scorched land, and damaging social and civil infrastructure before the winter period. Condolences and loud statements are not enough. It needs urgent decisions and steps. Including, to strengthen the capabilities of the Air Defense Forces of Ukraine. The real blockage of the international networks of procurement and supply of goods that are used by Russia to manufacture weapons. The ending of any form of energy cooperation with Russia. The Russians, using the combined missile strikes, are overloading the Ukrainian Air Defense. The defenders of Ukraine need additional Patriot/Iris-T/NASAMS systems, a larger number of PAC-3 MSE, and AIM-120 missiles to change this logic.
The 19th EU sanctions package should finally block the current supply networks of foreign components for the Russian, Iranian, and North Korean military industry. To create objective blocking mechanisms in energy cooperation with Moscow. Russia, its armed Russians-mankurts, and their foreign minions understand only the force and reality of the prospect of facing punishment. Iran felt this in full, although, obviously, not enough.
The “forced peace” without Air Defense, without sanctions against military-industrial complexes and related sectors of Russia, Iran, North Korea, as well as in the absence of efficient international efforts to tame the aggressor, only encourages a new “Axis of Evil” to repeated barbarism, only on a large scale.
If the civilized world today does not curb Russia, Russian mankurts that earn at the war, tomorrow will be considered coffins, and not only in Ukraine.
And yes, do not look away — look on children’s coffins!
And yes, review the photo again!
Ivan Malakhov, specially for CDN