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Over 10 million Ukrainian books Russia destroyed in a single summer. In Kharkiv alone, a Russian strike on the publishing house destroyed 8 million books, including more than 620,000 school textbooks. In the latest attack in the Kyiv region, warehouses storing books from numerous Ukrainian publishers were hit, with more than 60,000 books destroyed. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, Russia has carried out at least 21 attacks on Ukraine's book industry. This summer alone, more than 30 Ukrainian publishers lost books, raw materials or works in progress. For centuries, Russia tried to suppress the Ukrainian word through bans, decrees, and censorship. Today, it uses missiles and drones to burn books and destroy the infrastructure that allows Ukrainian literature, language, and knowledge to reach readers. But Ukrainian books will continue to be printed, read, and passed from one generation to another. Russia will not erase Ukrainian culture.

This text makes a much stronger causal claim than the evidence presented supports by arguing that this political decision "backfired on Ukraine." The fact that Russia intensified its strikes after Ukraine's campaign does not necessarily mean it did so in response. More fundamentally, should we even view these operations through an "action–reaction" lens when both sides are pursuing their own strategic objectives? Russia has been systematically targeting Ukraine's economic infrastructure since 2022 as part of its own war strategy. Describing the current campaign as a "response" creates a misleading causal narrative.

With all due respect to Molin, takes like "Ukrainian resistance provokes Russia to destroy Ukraine" are... well, highly questionable. ​Russia has been striking Ukrainian civilian infrastructure for years now, and with such intensity that at one point they actually ran out of missiles. Energy, logistics, supermarkets, ports, hospitals, schools, everything was and is a target for them. ​What we’re seeing now is a shift to targeting warehouses, which did likely happen because of Ukrainian strikes on russian logistics. To appease their pro-war Z-population, they switched from their routine bombing of apartment buildings and hospitals to bombing supermarket chain warehouses and food retailers just to show the Z-crowd a picture titled, "Look, we did the thing too! Happy now?" But how, exactly, is that worse for Ukraine? I assure you, we weren't happy when they were focusing on our apartment buildings either. ​Moreover, you don't get to attack someone and then claim you're "retaliating" when they fight back. That’s just absurd logic. ​Russia also figured out that bombing Kyiv gets way more publicity than bombing, say, Sumy or Kharkiv. Our cities have been living under constant attacks and 15 alerts a day (or just one long alert that never stops) for years. But Kyiv is a much bigger city, and that’s where all the journalists live. Is it pleasant to live like this? Absolutely not. But will Kyiv break where smaller Ukrainian cities didn't? Also absolutely not.

Another russian occupier from Crimea is outraged: “It’s not normal for people to be without electricity in the 21st century while the authorities care only about elections.” This is what’s “not normal”? Occupying Crimea and Donbas. Abducting, torturing and repressing Ukrainians. Waging a full-scale war against Ukraine for over 4 years. Killing our people every single day. All of that was perfectly normal to you. Until the darkness reached your own home. That’s russian “justice.” That’s russian hypocrisy.

In Pozna, Poles beat a man, mistaking him for a Ukrainian. During the attack, they insulted Ukrainians, mentioning UPA and Bandera. Imagine being so xenophobic as such idiots… Now, a question for Poles: how many of you know that Bandera has 0 relation to Volyn? Why do you hate Bandera?