Missile/drone strikes on Kyiv city now

I've been hearing the dull booms of moderately distant explosions and I can now see from my window the rising palls of smoke from two impact sites, different directions, both about 5km away. People have just died.

The power cut out for about one second, then came back, so I'm guessing it's more of the same.

I'm guessing this is retaliation for the recent attack on the Russian fleet.

The actual effect so far of the attacks on the power infrastructure, for me, has been negligible. Typically a power cut has been four hours; so Internet goes out (I've not yet taken the trouble to sort out mobile broadband). The main upshot has been I get things done which I ought to be doing but never quite get round to because I'm too busy on the Internet =-)

Can hear emergency services sirens now.

Another boom.

The impact sites are probably going to be a bit harder to find, they're quite a long way from me, but I'll see what I can do about taking chocolate to the emergency workers.

There's a lovely quote from Solzhenitsyn which I recently discovered. He was writing about the USSR, but to my eye what he wrote is applicable to the culture of the Government of Russia (which was expressed in the USSR). It relates to everything you hear from a Russian State organ;

"We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying."