Punjab, Oct. 11 -- Eight people, including three children, were killed in a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia, the regional governor said. In the same week, the United States moved to ease sanctions on Russia - weeks after the President signed a bill to punish other countries for buying sanctioned Russian oil.
The strike
Zaporizhzhia is a city of several hundred thousand people that has been within artillery and missile range for most of the war. Three children among eight dead in a single attack is the kind of figure that no longer reliably reaches front pages, which is itself part of the story of this autumn.
It follows the strikes on two buses near Kramatorsk that killed more than 30 people and took the two-day civilian toll to 78, and a...