‘Enough of this horror. Let the clown go and negotiate peace’: After the strike on ‘Okhmatdyt,’ Ukrainian bloggers called to stop the war by any means

Following a Russian missile strike that destroyed sections of the “Okhmatdet” children’s hospital, several well-known Ukrainian bloggers have voiced the need to end the war by any means necessary.

For instance, blogger Vladyslava Rogovenko expressed her anger towards authorities on both sides and referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “clown.”

“I am shocked by the news. Let the clown go and negotiate peace. Enough of these innocent deaths and this horror. How long will this continue? My anger knows no bounds. I hate the authorities on both sides,” she said.

Blogger Yulia Verba from Ivano-Frankivsk accused the Ukrainian authorities of theft.

“The world sees and does nothing. Our own authorities are robbing our country. Children and people are dying. Families and lives are being destroyed. Plans and dreams,” she wrote.

In turn, blogger Oleksandr Voloshyn stated, “we cannot handle this war, and we need to be smarter.”

“We need to be f**king smarter in this whole game because it’s a game. We need to play by their rules, and then at one point make it so that they are stunned, that in fact, they played by our rules,” he commented.

Blogger Mila Baraeva wrote that she does not care how it ends, as long as children stop dying.

“Stop this already. I don’t care how, just as long as children stop dying from your f**king political games,” she posted.

Actress Natalka Denysenko spoke about the “victim energy that led to the war.”

“The energy of aggression and curses, hatred – which rises within us – destroys us,” she said.

On the morning of July 8, Russia launched a massive missile strike on Ukrainian cities. The main news was the partial destruction of “Okhmatdet” — the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine.