The drama of a real war remains unstoppable in Ukraine

While locals donate blood for the injured and relatives of the missing provide DNA, glimmers of our normal life cling on

The shopping centre that was damaged in a Russian rocket attack in Kremenchuk last week: The exact number of those killed is still not known, but hundreds of people were at the epicentre of the explosion and of some of them, not even fragments are left. Picture: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

The city of Kremenchuk is looking for blood. Last week, two Russian missiles blew apart a large shopping and entertainment centre where about a thousand people were spending the afternoon. 

The exact number of those killed is still not known, but hundreds of people were at the epicentre of the explosion and of some of them, not even fragments are left.