20/09/2026
Sofino, Moscow Region, Russia.
This is what is happening there today.
And I can almost hear the question already spreading across the Russian information space:
“Why us?”
After almost five years of full-scale war, this question remains one of the most baffling things about this war to me.
I live in Kyiv. I don’t read about this war in the news feed — I live through it.
So when I see Russians outraged by Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, I want to ask just one question:
Where have you been all these years?
Where are you now, when missiles and drones are hitting Ukrainian cities every single day?
When people are once again sleeping in corridors and shelters?
When apartment buildings, energy infrastructure, railway stations and businesses are being hit?
When Ukrainian cities live every day with the knowledge that the next explosion could happen in your own home?
This is happening right now. Every single day.
And this is not 1940, when information could be completely sealed off by state censorship.
This is the 21st century.
A Russian person has a smartphone in their pocket with access to the entire world. YouTube, Telegram, foreign media, eyewitness videos, satellite imagery, thousands of documentary reports.
And still — “We don’t know why.”
Perhaps this is the most frightening result of propaganda.
Not when people are forced to believe one particular lie.
But when they are trained for so long not to ask obvious questions that even a war their own country is waging in another country becomes something they perceive as simply… normal.
And then, one day, the war reaches Sofino, Moscow Region.
And suddenly:
“Why us?”
Because war has a way of returning to the place from which it was brought.
This is not “the war coming to Russia.”
This is the war reaching Russia after Russia brought war to Ukraine
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