No no, this is far worse. Major Ukrainian cities have always been considered a part of the Russian world. Russians bombing Kyiv sounds as insane as USAF bombing Philadelphia. There's no support for the war whatsover this time around, only horror and shame over what's happening, because it's touching those deep images from collective memory. The silhouette of an Orthodox church over the backdrop of a burning city[1] is like something straight out of countless movies about Nazi and Mongol invasions of Russia[2]. We see the Russian equivalents of "the smoldering wreck of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor" coming from Ukraine and it cuts much deeper.
