On the night of October 7th, the town of Pryluky, 150km east of Kyiv, was hit by Russian cruise missiles. The cruise missiles were not aimed at military targets. One of them slammed into a five-storey block of apartments, killing 18 people in their beds, including three children. Pryluky is the hometown of the Ukrainian ambassador to Ireland, Larysa Gerasko. A missile crashed into her aunt’s back garden, destroying her home while she was asleep inside. “It was around 7am. She woke up to the sound of an explosion and rubble falling down from the roof. It’s a miracle she...