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Maria Troyanivska had come home early the night a Russian drone hit her bedroom.

“It flew in through the window, right into her room,” her mother Viktoria tells the BBC. After the explosion, she and her husband Volodymyr ran from the next room to find their daughter’s room on fire.

“We tried to put it out, but everything was burning so strongly,” she says through tears. “It was impossible to breathe – we had to leave.”

The Russian Shahed drone killed the 14-year-old in her bed, in her suburban apartment in Kyiv, last month.

“She died immediately, and then burned,” her mother said. “We had to bury her in a closed coffin. She had no chance of surviving.” BBC/Kamil Dayan Khan Maria's bedroom in suburban Kyiv

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes? A lot of experts agree that the campaign of bombing cities during WWII had the opposite effect than intended (demoralising the people in the hopes they would turn on the regime).

That has never worked, not then, not now.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Turns out a civilian population who are homeless, struggling to survive, have no basic services, all lines of communication cut, and are terrified for the immediate survival of their family, are in the worst possible position to organize against a tyrannical regime and military industrial complex.

"Hey refugee camp. We expect you to overpower the terrorist stormtroopers who are oppressing you. Weapons!?! Get fucked. Best we can do is destroy your lives so you have nothing to live for. It's for the greater good. Lol."