What to do with air raid alarms? In both Kiev and Mykolaiv, there are several air raid alarms during the day and at least two alarms each night lasting 15 minutes to several hours each. The instructions are always the same; Go to the bomb shelters. We can, but that makes it hard to function the next day. Particularly in Mykolaiv, many of the drones and missiles are ‘fly-by’s’ going over Mykolaiv en route to other targets and are minimal risk to us. You play the odds.
One way you can tweak the odds is to locate as far as you can from military targets. The reasoning is that the Russians would rather attack a military target than a civilian target which would have limited military utility. That seems to work most of the time, but not all the time. We just don’t know what the Russians are thinking.
There was a drone attack on the city of Mykolaiv 3 nights ago. You could hear the ‘lawnmower’ sound of the Shaheed drone and then an explosion. The drone struck and destroyed an apartment complex about a mile from us with 5 killed and a dozen injured. We can’t know if the apartment was deliberately targeted or if the inherent inaccuracies of the drone caused it strike the apartments inadvertently. The end result was the same with the deaths, injuries and the loss of 24 housing units.
What I have observed is that in combat, both in the Ukraine and in the middle east, much of what happens is random. Where an artillery shell lands, whether a sniper misses, or if a person is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course precautions and knowledge/skills help and should be used. But while they keep you out of trouble most of the time, they aren’t a guarantee. Sometimes, shit just happens. We see that here.
Keep praying for the people of the Ukraine and thanks for supporting our mission.
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