Open letter to the Russians: It will become only worse for you

Igal Levin in the Obozrevatel:

"Russians have been terrorizing Ukrainian civilians for a long time. They have nothing to "surprise" Ukrainians with

10.10.2025

The Russians, of course, are incredibly magical—it never ceases to amaze me how happy they are that they were able to shut down the water supply in Kyiv for a few hours, as if it were some kind of retaliation and some kind of success. 

Sirs, to impress, you have to hit harder (and many times harder) than before. Let me remind you that you've been attacking the energy infrastructure since 2022, and back then, since Ukraine was just learning to cope, you actually managed to cause partial blackouts a couple of times a day. Then there were rolling blackouts, and then in 2023, and then in 2024. You've been hitting hard for a long time, and you simply can't hit harder, so your attacks are no longer "impressive." 

It's like ISIS terrorists trying to impress someone today by beheading someone on camera, or Hamas trying to impress someone by launching a rocket into a city. None of this is impressive, because it's been going on for a long time, and these are well-established patterns of behavior. It's the same with you—you've been waging terror against peaceful Ukrainian citizens for years, and you have nothing to surprise these same Ukrainians with. 

Except perhaps once again admitting that you're banal terrorists when Ukrainian children die during your latest attack, like today: you, filthy pigs, killed a child in Zaporizhzhia. 

You've been fighting at the peak of your firepower for a long time, and if you're not bombing somewhere, it's not out of "humanity," but because you can't. And the terror bombings you've been waging for several years won't "impress" anyone. 

Ukraine, meanwhile, is expanding its capabilities and capabilities, and while in 2022 it could launch a couple of Tochka-U missiles at your border facilities, now it's causing blackouts, destroying arsenals, refineries, pipelines, and other strategic facilities. Your factories and workshops are burning, and target engagement ranges of 1,500–2,000 meters are becoming routine. This is truly impressive, it's inspiring, it's a true achievement, backed by considerable effort and resources. 

And you will have even more burning and ruin, because, as I have already noted, Ukraine is only increasing its capabilities and will continue to strike back - in response to your murderous terror of the civilian population, which you are waging due to your military impotence and blatant incompetence."