India, July 25 -- Conservative influencer Laura Loomer is in hot water after posting about her experience during an overnight air raid in Kyiv on Friday. She said she woke up in panic as sirens blared across the Ukrainian capital. The post drew sympathy from some users but also triggered widespread backlash from critics.

Loomer wrote on X that air raid sirens awakened her after falling asleep in Ukraine.

"Was just woken up by an air raid in Ukraine. It made me feel a sense of panic being woken up by siren alarms after falling asleep. My heart felt like it was racing and I needed to catch my breath because I was so startled from the loud noise waking me up," she wrote.

She further empathized with people living there in such conditions a...