On Sunday, Russia launched nearly 600 attack drones and dozens of missiles across Ukraine. These numbers are just statistics — until an explosion shatters your window and stops your heart.

Four people died in Kyiv. Among them was a 12-year-old girl. She was crushed by a concrete slab from her own apartment building, a place that should have been her fortress. Her mother is now fighting for her life in the hospital. One moment — a family. The next — a chasm.

When the sirens sounded, I, like thousands of others, went to the safest place in my apartment — the corridor. With me was my dog, Kas, a white Samoyed usually full of joy. But not at night, when the Shahed drones (a type of Iranian-made kamikaze drone) fly. He trembles as if from cold, and I sit on the floor, covering his ears with

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