In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk

Residents of Kyiv and Kharkiv were not anxiously waiting for the results of a possible peace deal.

Instead, they were counting their dead.

It turned out to be the deadliest night for the Ukrainian capital this year .

Residents of the capital had become used to Ukraine ’s air defences protecting the city.

But there are fewer than 10 air defence systems in Ukraine .

The events of this week are about as vivid a demonstration you can get that the war is still happening, that it is real, and that Moscow has no real desire to end it. - Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab .