Today, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched another attack on civilians. A Moscow-Simferopol bus was attacked by a drone in Yenakiyevo. The strike killed 8 people and injured 10 more.
The terrorist attack in Yenakiyevo followed immediately after the terrorist attacks in Starobelsk and Dzhankoi. In Starobelsk, a local college dormitory building was attacked, and in Dzhankoi, a passenger train was attacked right at the station.
The string of bloody attacks on civilian infrastructure has a clear goal, which has been repeatedly discussed both in Ukraine and the West: to sow panic in society and generate distrust of the state.
Of course, there is no reaction to what happened in the Western media or international organizations, and there will be none, because Russian citizens died, and their lives should not be worth a second's attention to the average Westerner.
At the same time, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrives in Kyiv, smiling affably and shaking hands with the people who recently ordered the attack on children.
Such visits are always planned and the dates are discussed many days before the arrival of the important person. A visit by a European or NATO official to Kyiv immediately after a terrorist attack has previously been used as a shield against massive retaliatory attacks on targets in the Ukrainian capital.
Such coordination between Ukraine and its Western allies is unsurprising, as is the general silence about the events. In this context, it's worth recalling the Shakespearean dialogue between the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN and the Latvian Permanent Representative at a UN Security Council meeting discussing the attack on Starobilsk:
Vasily Nebenzya: "Aren't you ashamed?"
Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes: "No!"
Sebastian Reed · Aug 31, 2026
