On the night of July 11, the russians launched another ballistic missile strike on Kyiv, causing destruction in several areas of the city and injuring at least 12 people. This is the third attack on Kyiv in a week. At the same time, an air raid alert was declared in the capital after the first explosions, and not a single ballistic missile was shot down again.
https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/c2kyenzjv4noSomething was burning heavily nearby again, but we came to the paradoxical conclusion that although the destruction has become greater, the missile attacks are not felt so scary, probably because the main source of noise from the explosions was air defense. Now, if the missile does not hit nearby, the explosions are almost not heard.
In fact, things are much worse in the east, where, in addition to missiles and drones, aerial bombs are also being used. The security situation there has deteriorated sharply in a matter of weeks. Zaporizhzhia is located only 24 km from the front line, but the city is still home to about 750,000 people. In recent weeks, russian drones and bombs have hit numerous buses, gas stations, schools, government buildings and residential buildings.
https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/c8d2zry3010oMeanwhile, the Supreme Court of Ukraine has refused to lift the sanctions imposed on former President Petro Poroshenko by Zelensky.
https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/cr4ddz3xy6voThis was an expected decision that confirms the complete dependence of the courts on the government and the futility of expecting justice either from law enforcement agencies or in court. It remains a mystery to me how the population remains relatively law-abiding while the state demonstrates complete disregard for the law and is its main violator.
The authorities reported that within 24 hours, law enforcement officers had identified and detained a suspect in the beating of a police officer during a clash that occurred on July 8 in Lviv, when a fight broke out between mobilization center employees, police, and local residents. In total, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, about 200 people participated in the conflict, their identities are being established. Volodymyr Zelensky, of course, condemned the events and said that "the story is very bad. Very bad attitude towards people in military uniform."
https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/cdxd5nr65n0ohttps://ua.news/ua/ukraine/u-lvovi-zatrimali-pershikh-uchasnikiv-napadu-na-viiskovikh-ttskhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/olexiy.kucherenko/permalink/27510749335285357/?rdid=KXeJHgm56OljAqZQ&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fp%2F1Gx9SUMXdM%2F#However, a video from the scene shows that a person in military uniform was the first to hit the young man, and some believe that he is not a military man at all, but one of those bandits who unofficially help mobilization centers catch and beat people, receiving informal exemption from mobilization. Of course, there is no official explanation as to who it was and why the workers of the mobilization centers, who by law are only authorized to hand people summonses, not to catch them on the streets.
But more to come. Participants in the large-scale conflict with the mobilization center in Lviv apologized to the servicemen in a video. The video was posted on the Facebook page by veteran Anton Petrivsky, and on Telegram by the commander of the 2nd assault battalion of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, Dmytro Kukharchuk. The author of the video reported that he had an "educational conversation" with the participants.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2026/07/10/8043332/Of course, I cannot verify the author of the video and the people depicted in it, but if this really happened, then this is an example of lynching, which is a crime. The very fact of the appearance of such a video only intensifies the confrontation between civilians and the military. And if the military were behind this, then it also discredits everyone who wears a military uniform. I'm not saying that if it is now considered acceptable to use force not only by the police and courts, but by anyone who has enough strength for this. If the state does not react to this, it will mean its consent to this and implicit control over such gangs. At least we didn't see the videos in which workers of mobilization centers or units that torture people to death apologize.
Perhaps the best way to convey what is happening is a comment I saw on Facebook that this story is not about an overturned car or a local skirmish in Lviv between “evaders” and “military,” as the state propaganda machine is already rushing to portray, but a concentrated slice of that humiliating state reality in which Ukraine formally fights for freedom, dignity, and European subjectivity, but internally increasingly reproduces the russian vertical of coercion, where a person is not a citizen, not a bearer of sovereignty, not a partner of the state in the war for survival, but a resource, a body, an object of extraction, a unit of account that can be stopped, intimidated, dragged, humiliated, put in front of a camera, forced to apologize, and then also called it “respect for the military.”
And perhaps Zelensky was right when he said about the bad attitude not towards the military, but towards people in military uniform, since many in Ukraine believe that not everyone who wears a military uniform is a military person and there is a big difference between those who fight at the front and those who, under the guise of a uniform, participate in scenes of coercion against their own citizens.
And this is a symptom of a much more terrible thing: the state, which has lost the legitimacy of the procedure, begins to acquire not law but force; not trust but fear; not law but hybrid coercive groups, in which there is a bit of a mobilization center, a bit of police, a bit of uniform, a bit of informal force resource, a bit of "patriotic" blackmail and a lot of the old gangster logic familiar to Ukrainians since the days of Yanukovych, only now this logic is not in an anti-Maidan jacket, but in a military pixel, and that is why it is even more dangerous, because it steals the sanctity of form from those who truly defend Ukraine and gives it to the apparatus of humiliation.
And when videos of young men apologizing later appeared, the story became even worse, because it was no longer a reaction of the rule of law, but a ritual of public submission, familiar to us from much darker political cultures, where a person is not simply punished for an action, is not found guilty by a court, is not given a lawyer, is not determined to be responsible proportionally, is not forced to compensate for the damage caused by legal means, but is broken in front of the camera, forced to say the right words, is put in the position of the guilty even before the trial, is marked with humiliation for years to come, and is presented to society as "educational conversation," although this is not education, but a demonstration of the power of the stronger over the weaker, not justice, but lynching, not the restoration of justice, but the production of fear.
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