#BeingHuman. Through April 2026, russian forces conducted 5,095 combat engagements along the front line. They launched 2,093 air strikes and dropped 6,720 guided aerial bombs. Short-range kamikaze and FPV drones deployed against frontline cities and villages: 260,234. Artillery shelling: 96,119 strike events, meaning individual incidents rather than shells fired, of which 2,322 came from multiple launch rocket systems.
Across thirty nights of overnight attacks, russia launched 6,222 long-range Shahed-type kamikaze drones, in addition to the daylight Shahed and FPV swarms, and fired at least 146 missiles of various types, ballistic and cruise and guided aerial.
In total, 371,534 individual weapons and artillery strikes were deployed against Ukraine in thirty days. An average of 12,384 weapons a day. Or 516 an hour. Or one weapon every 6.98 seconds, around the clock, for a month.
Drones and missiles that were not intercepted reached their targets at 418 confirmed locations across various regions, with debris from intercepted strikes falling on another 245. In total, more than 270 cities and towns and villages were struck through air strikes, missile strikes, drone attacks, artillery shelling and ground assault operations during the month.
These are the reported minimums, drawn from the Ukrainian Air Force, the State Emergency Service, regional military administrations and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission. The actual figures are far higher, since many daily dispatches cover only the most prominent attacks, and casualties in frontline settlements under continuous shelling are routinely missed.
January: at least 161 killed, 757 injured.
February: at least 191 killed, 759 injured.
March: at least 211 killed, 1,206 injured.
April: at least 217 killed, over 1,630 injured.
Some people in russia and outside Ukraine are finally noticing that the war has reached russia: a burning fuel depot, a shaking window. They mourn their own losses, including the losses of those who committed the crimes. They do not mourn our cities, our families, our children. They focus on every consequence except the one their own soldiers created on our maps. And the solution is simple, since the war could end today if russian forces left Ukraine. There is nothing else to work out here.
The prophets warned that empires count cities only in order to consume them. “Woe to those who join house to house; they add field to field, till there is no place where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!” (Isaiah 5:8, NKJV).
But God numbers names and cities differently, not as conquests but as the lost coin, the lost sheep, the lost son, the lost city. He knows each of them by name. So do we. So we must.
Across thirty daily General Staff briefings and thirty Air Force overnight reports from 1 to 30 April 2026, 273 settlements, cities, river islands and named landmarks inside Ukrainian territory were listed as russian targets: struck by air, by missile, by drone, attacked along combat axes, or named as the direction of an assault.
I have compiled them in alphabetical order, the way someone might copy out a psalm. Please try to read them as a prayer. Each of these names was a home before it became a point on a targeting map, marked there, supposedly, in defense of traditional Christian values.
Ambarne, Andriivka, Andriivka-Klevtsove, Antonivka, Antonivskyi Bridge, Balabyne, Barvinivka, Berestok, Berezove, Bilohiria, Bilohrudyi (island), Bilytske, Bochkove, Bohodarivka, Bohuslavka, Bondarne, Borivska Andriivka, Buvalyne, Charivne (Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions), Chasiv Yar, Chernatske, Cherneshchyna, Chernihiv (city), Chervona Krynytsia, Chervona Zoria, Chervonyi Lyman, Chervonyi Stav, Chornomorsk (Odesa region), Dachne, Dibrova, Dnipro (city), Dniprovske (Kherson region), Dobropasove, Dobropillia, Dolyna, Dolynka, Dorozhnie, Drobysheve, Druzheliubivka, Esman, Fedorivka, Fedorivka Druha, Filiia, Fotovyzh, Hannivka, Hola Prystan, Holubivka, Horikhove, Hrafske, Hrekivka, Hryhorivka, Hryshyne, Huliaipilske, Huliaipole, Iablunivka, Iasna Poliana, Iskryskivshchyna, Iulivka, Iurkivka, Ivanivka, Ivanopillia, Izbytske, Kalenyky, Kalynivske, Kamianka, Kamianske, Kapitolivka, Karmazynivka, Kateryntivka, Kharkiv (city), Kherson (city), Khoroshe, Kindrashivka, Kivsharivka, Klebban-Byk, Kolisnykivka, Kolodiazne, Kolomiitsi, Komyshuvakha, Konovalova, Kopani, Kopanky, Kostiantynivka, Kotline, Krasne Pershe, Krasnohirske, Kruhlyk (island), Kryva Luka, Krynychne, Krynivka, Kucheriv Yar, Kucherivka, Kupiansk, Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, Kurylivka, Kushuhum, Kyiv (city), Levadne, Lisne, Liubytske, Luhky, Lukianivske, Lyman, Lystivka, Maiske, Mala Rybytsia, Mala Slobidka, Mala Tokmachka, Mala Vovcha, Mali Shcherbaky, Malokaterynivka, Malomykhailivka, Malynivka, Markove, Minkivka, Mykilske, Mykolaipillia, Mykolaivka, Myrne, Myrnohrad, Nadiia, Neskuchne, Nizhenka, Nova Kruhliakivka, Nove Polie, Nove Shakhove, Nove Zaporizhzhia, Novoandriivka, Novodanylivka, Novodmytrivka, Novohryhorivka, Novoivanivka, Novomykhailivka, Novomykolaivka, Novooleksandrivka, Novoolenivka, Novoosynove, Novopavlivka, Novopidhorodne, Novoplatonivka, Novorozivka, Novoselivka, Novoserhiivka, Novovasylivka, Novoiakovlivka, Novyi Donbas, Novyi Myr, Nykanorivka, Nykyforivka, Obshche, Odarivka, Odesa (city), Okhrimivka, Oleksandrivka (Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions), Oleksandro-Shultyne, Oleksandrohrad, Olenokostiantynivka, Olhivka, Omelnyk, Orestopil, Orikhiv, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Orly, Ozerne, Pavlivka (Sumy and Zaporizhzhia regions), Petropavlivka, Pidhavrylivka, Pishchane, Plavni, Platonivka, Pleshchiivka, Podoly, Pokrovsk, Pokrovske (Dnipropetrovsk region), Polohy, Predtechyne, Preobrazhenka Komyshuvakha, Prokhody, Prosiana, Prylipka, Pryluky, Prymorske, Pryvillia, Pysantsi, Radisne, Radkivka, Rai-Oleksandrivka, Raiske, Rizdvianka, Riznykivka, Rivne (Zaporizhzhia region), Rodynske, Rozliv, Rozivka, Rudnia, Rusyn Yar, Rybalske, Samiilivka, Serednie, Serhiivka, Shcherbaky, Shevchenko, Shevchenkivske, Shyikivka, Shyroke, Sichneve, Sofiivka, Solodke, Sosnivka, Staritsa, Staroukrainka, Stavky, Stepanivka, Stepnohirsk, Stepove, Sumy (city), Svarkove, Sviatopetrivka (Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions), Svoboda, Symynivka, Synelnykove, Taratutyne, Tavriiske, Ternopil (city), Ternova, Ternove, Tomaryne, Toretske, Tovstodubove, Trudove, Tverdokhlibove, Tykhe, Tykhonivka, Udachne, Varvarivka, Vasiutynske, Vasylivka, Vasylivske, Velykomykhailivka, Verbove, Verkhnia Tersa, Veselianka, Veterynarne, Viktorivka, Vilcha, Vilchanka, Vilna Sloboda, Vilne, Vorone, Vovchansk, Vovchanski Khutory, Vovche, Vozdvyzhenka, Vozdvyzhivka, Vozdvyzhivska, Vydradne, Vyshneve, Yampil, Yastrubshchyna, Yehorivka, Zahryzove, Zakitne, Zaliznychne, Zaporizhzhia (city), Zaporozhets, Zarichne, Zelena Dolyna, Zelene, Zelenyi Hai, Zibyne, Zirnytsia, Zlahoda, Zorivka, together with the Antonivskyi Bridge crossing on the Dnipro and the islands of Bilohrudyi and Kruhlyk in the Kherson sector.
Behind every number stands a name, and behind every name a family, and behind every family a home and a life that the russian mill ground into dust between Holy Week and the end of the month.
The mill grinds still. It does not stop for weekends, for children, for God, for Christmas, for Easter, for funerals, for nights. It stops only when the millstone is broken, which is what some peacemakers find so hard to understand. Until then we count, and name, and pray, and serve, and we do not look away.
Christ is risen. The russian mill grinds. Both sentences are true, and the first will outlast the second… Taras D., Ukraine (Kyiv to Rivne)
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