On the night between July 5 and 6, Russia carried out one of the most massive attacks on Kyiv since the war began. Ukraine reported over 70 missiles and around 350 drones fired in a single sweep. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko called this "the most massive Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital so far" - at least 18 dead and over 90 injured.

The target was not random. The strike hit the "Vizar" factory complex in Vyshneve near Kyiv, where the explosions continued with secondary detonations of stored ammunition. The Russian side claims the facility produced and stored weapons, and that Ukraine uses Kyiv as a war zone under the protection of air defense. Every attack comes with its own justification - the question is whether the civilians the hospital is counting care whose version is correct.

But the timing of the attack says more than the attack itself. It fell right before the NATO summit in Turkey, and Russian analysts did not hide it. "Russia will not back down, regardless of NATO's decisions," one of them said. The message is clear: however much the West increases aid to Ukraine, Moscow will not stop striking Ukrainian military infrastructure.

This is a game we have been watching for years - every major diplomatic event in the West is met with a Russian volley, like a signature under a negotiating position. The Balkans know this logic well: a power that does not want to talk first shows what it can do, and only then sits at the table. And while the big players exchange messages through missiles and summits, the bill, as always, is paid by ordinary people under the sirens.

Whether the summit in Turkey will respond with anything more than statements of concern, or Kyiv will again be left alone with its ruins - we will see in the coming days. So far, the pattern is familiar: the West meets, Russia strikes, and the front line moves by centimeters, paid for in lives.