NEWS FROM UKRAINE: DEADLY AIR STRIKES

August 2024 was one of the deadliest months in Ukraine for civilian casualties in the last 2.5 years. At the end of August, the terrorist state of russia carried out its largest air strike since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, targeting multiple large cities and focusing on destroying energy infrastructure. Only 80% of 127 missiles and 90% of 109 drones were downed, according to the Ukraine Air Force Commander, with the remaining weapons causing widespread destruction and energy blackouts. Just a week later, missile and drone attacks on Lviv left a man as the only survivor in his family after his wife and three daughters were killed, according to Lviv’s mayor Andriy Sadovyi. 

This barrage followed one of the deadliest single strikes a day earlier, when more than 50 people were killed and 271 injured by Russian ballistic missiles in Poltava in central Ukraine. In response to the recent strikes, President Zelenskiy again urged Ukraine's allies to step up the supply of air-defense systems and long-range missiles that can defend against russian terror: "Every day of delay, unfortunately, means more lives lost." Now is the time to write your representatives to ask them to send more of the air-defense systems and long-range missiles Zelensky references. There is no time to spare.