Please Don't Forget About Ukraine...
While the World Watches Iran, Russia Unleashes Daily Hell on Ukraine — and Trump Helps Bury It
There’s a profound helplessness in watching Ukraine bombed night after night while the world looks away. As headlines remain focused on Iran and Israel, Russia escalates its genocidal war—targeting apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, and shelters. Despite much of the media moving on, the attacks are intensifying and growing more brazen by the day.
In the early hours of June 23, Russia launched yet another wave of mass terror across Ukraine. At least 14 civilians were killed and dozens injured in one of its most devastating assaults this summer. Nine people died in Kyiv when a missile struck a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, collapsing part of it. In Odesa, a missile destroyed a high school, killing two staff members. In Chernihiv, a drone strike killed two and wounded ten, including three children.
“We barely made it downstairs with my child. Everything here was on fire,” a Kyiv resident said.
Last night, Russia launched 352 drones and decoys, 11 ballistic missiles, and 5 cruise missiles. Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted 339 drones and 15 missiles, but the scale of the attack overwhelmed even Ukraine’s best-prepared cities.
“There were bricks on me. There was something in my mouth. It was total hell. I woke up in the rubble,” recalled another survivor.
Ten people, including a pregnant woman, were rescued from the wreckage, and even the entrance to a Kyiv subway station— considered a safe haven—was hit, injuring two.
The attack coincided with Zelenskyy’s visit to the UK, where he met King Charles III and Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of the NATO summit. The timing wasn’t subtle. These missile barrages are meant to show that diplomacy won’t stop Russia’s genocidal war machine.
“The latest strikes show Russia’s unlimited cruelty,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, pledging more sanctions.
But those words ring hollow as the bombs keep falling.
Just days earlier, Russia carried out its deadliest attack on Kyiv in months. In one of the most intense bombardments of Russia’s genocidal war, Moscow launched 440 drones and 32 missiles, including cluster munitions, striking 27 locations and destroying a Kyiv apartment block. At least 28 civilians, including a U.S. citizen, were killed and more than 100 injured.
This is daily terrorism—systematic, relentless, and strategically aimed at civilians—yet it barely registers in the global news cycle, reduced to passing headlines while Russia’s reign of terror intensifies
And while Ukraine fights and mourns, Trump is working behind the scenes to erase it from the global agenda. According to diplomatic sources, the U.S. is pressuring NATO allies to limit references to Ukraine in the upcoming summit communique, offering only a vague line about “defense capabilities,” stripping out meaningful commitments and language of solidarity.
Zelenskyy has been invited only to the summit’s opening dinner, while the NATO-Ukraine Council was cancelled as a concession to Trump. There will be no strong statement of unity, as the U.S. pressures allies behind closed doors—deliberate signs of retreat designed to placate Putin.
Meanwhile, emboldened by Trump’s cover, Putin is no longer pretending. At the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, he declared:
“All of Ukraine is ours.”
He went further, claiming “wherever a Russian soldier steps is Russian land,” and suggested that Sumy could be the next target.
This is Russia’s bloody imperialism carried out through the extermination of Ukrainians—a goal the Kremlin has openly declared time and again. Meanwhile, Trump continues to give Putin cover. He aimed to pressure Ukraine into surrender through sham “negotiations,” but when Kyiv refused to capitulate, Trump walked away and showed frustration with Ukraine rather than with Moscow, treating Putin’s bloody imperialist demands as legitimate.
This isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s about whether borders mean anything, whether alliances matter, and whether the free world will defend democracy, or let it be erased. If Russia is allowed to redraw the map by force, emboldened by silence and rewarded for genocide, then this war won’t end in Ukraine. And as Russia has repeatedly warned, it will spread to NATO countries.
In the coming days, NATO leaders will meet and face a defining choice: whether appeasing the U.S., which threatens to abandon the alliance, is more important than defending the principles NATO was built on. The world will be watching—and most importantly, so will Russia and China.
Ukraine will continue fighting. The question is whether the free world is still standing with them.
You are absolutely correct and I have not forgotten. It's not much, but I send $36 a month and write to my Senators once a month as well. Where are the best places to donate?
I hurt for Ukraine’s beautiful people who never deserved this unfair invasion of their sovereign Country.😞