A news report, a typical one, but not to be ignored for its typicalness:

Rescue workers pulled more bodies from the rubble on Saturday after a Russian missile attack on a residential neighborhood in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk killed at least 11 people . . .

Some more:

On Saturday, emergency workers retrieved two corpses from the remains of a five-story apartment building . . . A 2-year-old boy had been rescued from a building on Friday but then died in an ambulance . . .

Don’t get numb, if it is at all possible. These are people, or were people, just trying to live their lives, as you and I are. They did nothing wrong. They were just in the way of Vladimir Putin’s desire to conquer a neighbor.

The news report I have quoted from is here. And here is something supplementary:

• David Petraeus, the retired Army general and former CIA director, gave an interview to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Ukraine war, he said, “is about as clear a right-versus-wrong as we’ve seen in our lifetime.” I think this is correct. For the interview, go here.

• George Weigel has written a piece called “What Ukraine Means.” Weigel is the scholar and analyst perhaps best known for his biography of John Paul II (a colossal achievement). I had thought to quote from his Ukraine piece at length. But suffice it to say that it is a comprehensive piece on the subject and an excellent one. I do not know of a better piece — a better comprehensive piece on the Ukraine war. Here.

• From RFE/RL, something important:

Russian forces took Ukrainian students from a school in the Mykolayiv region that provided accommodation for children with special needs. They were sent to live at a sanatorium in Russia’s Krasnodar region. The school’s director, Natalia Lutsyk, followed the children to Russia and fought to get them out.

The heroism in this war — as well as the villainy — is staggering.

• Something else to know about: “Russian Activist Who Gave Interview To Jailed U.S. Reporter Gershkovich Sent To Pretrial Detention.”

• Something else: “Bolshoi Theater Drops Ballet About Life Of Nureyev From Repertoire Over ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law.” Interesting. The report says,

Amendments to the 2013 “gay propaganda” law approved in December widened a ban on “the propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations.” Russian authorities said the amendments were needed to help defend morality.

Ah, yes. The last subject this dictatorship is fit to talk about is morality. The very last.

• Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years for high treason. His crime: to have criticized the Ukraine war. He is a friend to many of us. The Bulwark has published a piece by David J. Kramer: “My Friend, the Traitor.” As Mr. Kramer says, Vladimir is “one of Russia’s greatest patriots.”

• A tweet from the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal:

My gosh, what a surprise. Blow me down.

• The headline over this report reads, “Liz Cheney says Greene should lose security clearance for defending suspect in Pentagon docs leak.” There could not be two more different Republicans — two more different women — than Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene. The GOP has embraced the latter and spurned the former. But many of us admire the former a great deal.

• John Bolton wrote an interesting article (of course) that begins with an arresting sentence — a sentence so plain-looking, you may not quite notice it, or reckon with it. Here it is: “The post–Cold War era is over.” When I read that, I thought, “You know? It’s true. Perfectly true.”

To be continued . . .