More than 900 died in Kyiv but Putin vows another dreadful attack.

By Edward Era Barbacena

It has been almost three months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. As a result, the Russian offensive move to the country's capital  (Kyiv) has been embarrassingly futile for the Putin despite of heavy assaults and deadly shelling that resulted to the deaths of more than 900 civilians in the city. 

Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond Saturday in an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat despite Moscow’s pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east.

Stung by the loss of its Black Sea flagship and indignant over alleged Ukrainian aggression on Russian territory, Russia’s military command had warned of renewed missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital. Officials in Moscow said they were targeting military sites, a claim repeated — and refuted by witnesses — throughout 52 days of war.

The toll reaches much deeper. Each day brings new discoveries of civilian victims of an invasion that has shattered European security. As Russia prepared for the anticipated offensive, a mother wept over her 15-year-old son’s body after rockets hit a residential area of Kharkiv, a city in northeast Ukraine. An infant and at least eight other people died, officials said.