When at least 20 people are killed and dozens seriously injured in deliberately created large explosions in the middle of a peaceful city, it is called a terrorist attack.
One such attack was carried out in Vinnytsia on Thursday by the Russian army, which fired rockets at an office building and a medical facility in the center of the city in western Ukraine.
It is not just rhetoric that Ukraine and several East-Central European countries are now officially calling Russia a “terrorist state”, but a statement of fact.
Attacks like the one on Vinnytsia are systematic.
Not a day goes by when Russian forces don't shell civilian targets in Ukrainian cities.
Your hits in hospitals, apartment buildings, and malls aren't accidental.
For days there have been increasing reports that grain fields ready for harvest are being set on fire.
All of this demonstrates what Vladimir Putin and his people are about: They want to destroy Ukraine.
This becomes particularly clear with the example of Vinnytsia.
The city is several hundred kilometers from the front.
The message of the attack on them is: Normal life should not be possible anywhere in Ukraine.