While thousands have had to flee their homes, there is widespread feeling the attack is a justified form of defence
Last Tuesday, Oksana and her family could not escape fast enough. Though they did not know it, Ukrainian regular forces had entered Russia for the first time, and Moscow’s military wasted little time in hitting back, bombing their village around seven miles from the border.
“It was 9am in the morning and the first glide bomb hit the village,” she said, and its ferocity – “very scary, much bigger” than ordinary shelling – was such they knew immediately they had to escape. “Our neighbour drove his children first and then came back and picked me and my sister and family,” the mother of two explained.
Continue reading…While thousands have had to flee their homes, there is widespread feeling the attack is a justified form of defenceLast Tuesday, Oksana and her family could not escape fast enough. Though they did not know it, Ukrainian regular forces had entered Russia for the first time, and Moscow’s military wasted little time in hitting back, bombing their village around seven miles from the border.“It was 9am in the morning and the first glide bomb hit the village,” she said, and its ferocity – “very scary, much bigger” than ordinary shelling – was such they knew immediately they had to escape. “Our neighbour drove his children first and then came back and picked me and my sister and family,” the mother of two explained. Continue reading…