Editor’s Note: This article was published by the twice-weekly newsletter “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on April 11, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to "The Counteroffensive," click here. On more than one occasion, I've gotten under the covers utterly exhausted from

On more than one occasion, I’ve gotten under the covers utterly exhausted from a day spent working, ready – begging, really – for a good night’s rest. And as I begin to drift off to sleep, the air raid alarm goes off, indicating another potential Russian attack.

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It’s startling and anxiety-inducing, and, even when it ends, your mind still races, unable to find the cusp of slumber that you had been so close to right before.

The seemingly random timing of the Russian military’s middle-of-the night attacks does damage not only to the missiles’ immediate targets.

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Over two years of Russian attacks have caused harm to the health and psyche of millions of Ukrainians - wounds undetectable to the naked eye.

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