“
Mom, I am in Ukraine There is a real war raging here.
I'm afraid.
We bomb all the cities.
And we even target civilians.
They call us fascists.
Mom, it's so hard
.
This chilling message was sent by a young Russian soldier, a few minutes before his death, to his mother.
It was the second day of the invasion.
Read by Ukraine's Ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, it was shared on Twitter by Time's correspondent in Ukraine, Vera Bergengruen.
This transcription of the exchanges was one of the most shared contents in France since the beginning of the conflict.
The war in Ukraine has already generated more than 7.5 million social media posts, making it the number one topic of discussion, according to data from Backbone Consulting for
Le Figaro
.
Since the night of February 24 to 25, the world has shifted into another reality.
That of the war in Europe, in which information represents, for the Kremlin and Ukraine, a…
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