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‘It’s blitz, blitz, blitz’: Kyiv’s shelters fill up as Russia intensifies aerial attacks
The Guardian ^ | Sat 12 Jul 2025 | Luke Harding

Posted on 07/12/2025 10:09:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

At 1am on Thursday, Dartsia Liuba went to the basement of her Kyiv apartment building with her two children and husband, Roma. The air-raid siren had gone off. A Russian attack was coming. Liuba scooped up her seven-month-old baby daughter, Halyna, and woke her bleary-eyed nine-year-old, Orysia, and they staggered down three floors to wait in sticky darkness.

Soon explosions began. There was an ugly whine in the sky immediately above their district of Podil. It came from a Shahed kamikaze drone. The streets echoed with booms and rat-tat-tat machine-gun fire as Ukrainian air defence units tried to bring it down. The moped-like buzzing stopped – and then resumed as more drones appeared, in a swarm too big to count.

Across Ukraine’s capital, people took cover in metro stations, subways and on the lower floors of blocks of flats. They heeded official advice to stay between two walls, with bathrooms a favourite hiding spot.

Last autumn, as Russia escalated its aerial raids, Liuba kitted out her shelter with camp beds, chairs and a squishy beanbag. The family bought a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher.

In the early hours of Thursday, Orysia finally slept. At some point Roma and Halyna dozed off. Liuba couldn’t sleep. She texted a friend: “It’s very scary. A lot of neighbours who don’t normally come to the basement are down here. It’s hard for me to deal with the explosions. I can barely hold myself together. My head hurts.” At 5am she took the kids upstairs, returning at 6am to the shelter because of incoming ballistic missiles.

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TOPICS: Ukraine
KEYWORDS: putinthewarpig; rescuemission; russiansuicide; vladtheimploder

1 posted on 07/12/2025 10:09:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ukraine goes after military, Russia goes after civilians.


2 posted on 07/12/2025 10:35:55 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: SkyDancer

How about a 1,000 Stuka raid on Moscow?


3 posted on 07/12/2025 10:39:47 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This can’t be true, western MSM has long stated Russia is out of missiles and ammunition.

….enough of their drivel, Vlad has been pounding Kiev and western Ukraine….some believe it is pay back for the Ukies attack on their nuke bombers…..the West just can’t wrap their heads around Russian warfare.

The West likes to blow their load ( shock and awe) first….Russia does it the other way, sit back and plot, “shock and awe “ comes during the end game.

I know, I trained Ivan’s in Moscow for three years.


4 posted on 07/12/2025 10:49:20 AM PDT by delta7
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s interesting to see that the Kremlin has ordered the destruction of mostly civilian targets, schools, hospitals, churches in Ukraine. While Ukraine hits Russian military targets with incredible success, eliminating Russian generals and leaders with MOSAD-like precision every single week.


5 posted on 07/12/2025 11:09:32 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

West Ukraine getting the Belgrade treatment...finally.


6 posted on 07/12/2025 11:11:32 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: MinorityRepublican

As the slavs continue to slaughter eachother.


7 posted on 07/12/2025 11:20:40 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: All

Oh, yeah, it was like lightning
Everybody was frightening
And the music was soothing
And they all started grooving
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And the man at the back said, “Everyone, attack”
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, “Boy, I wanna warn ya
It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz”


8 posted on 07/12/2025 11:56:48 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I tried pushing the envelope but it remained stationery.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/L5TPuUbiYT4
No B.S.
Just the Facts on the ground.😄


9 posted on 07/12/2025 12:57:56 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Russia is just helping out Ukraine fulfil their dreams....

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You would need to watch this to understand the context of the above. The video is from a Ukrainian who lives in Mariupol, Ukraine. In the US, the taking down of the confederate statues is eerily similar to the Ukrainians brainwashing they underwent, but much more intense. Which is what the video is about.

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10 posted on 07/12/2025 1:38:55 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s a war. Putin still hasn’t taken off the gloves. They are lucky Kiev doesn’t look like Gaza City.


11 posted on 07/12/2025 1:46:51 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: USA-FRANCE

“It’s interesting to see that the Kremlin has ordered the destruction of mostly civilian targets, schools, hospitals, churches in Ukraine.”

from Google using the term ‘ukrainian arms production’:

Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com › 2025/06/26 › ukraine-war-a...
Jun 26, 2025 — Since the start of the war, Ukraine has built an arms industry with an output capacity of over $35 billion.

The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com › world
May 18, 2025 — The value of weapons Ukraine’s defense industry can make has ballooned from $1 billion in 2022 to $35 billion over three years of war.


12 posted on 07/12/2025 2:40:19 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MinorityRepublican
Ukraine ceasing to exist after this war is over is the best case scenario for US taxpayers.
13 posted on 07/12/2025 2:45:33 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ukrainian arms production capability:

https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/b0003eae


14 posted on 07/12/2025 2:48:45 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SkyDancer
Ukraine, you idiot, has been targeting civilians in Donetsk for 14 years. It's used civilians as human shields during this war. It's shelled a nuclear power plants. It imprisoned and murdered US citizen Gonzalo Lira and killed Darya Dugina in a terrorist attack.

Only a liar or someone totally ignorant would try to pass off the Zelensky regime as anything less than evil.

15 posted on 07/12/2025 2:49:40 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

“Ukraine ceasing to exist after this war is over is the best case scenario for US taxpayers.”

The goal is to keep Ukraine self-governing.


16 posted on 07/12/2025 3:01:54 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

This would be over tomorrow if Ukraine conceded the annexed territory and agreed, as its Constitution mandates, to remain neutral toward Russia.


17 posted on 07/12/2025 3:33:24 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

We’re talking now, not then. So for now, you just PO idiot.


18 posted on 07/12/2025 6:03:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/L5TPuUbiYT4
Ukie strategy of giving up more ground working 😄


19 posted on 07/12/2025 6:14:30 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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