Diana. Twenty-three years old. Seven months pregnant. A hospital bed in a maternity clinic in Kamianske, in the center of Ukraine. Her heart filled with both fear and joy, anticipating the arrival of a new life. A child who will never cry. A mother who will never be able to look at her child. Russia has killed them! All it took was a single missile. The incident occurred on 29 July, at approximately 6 a.m. local time.

Target: maternity clinic. The crime: precise, premeditated, indiscriminately lethal.

Diana did not die in an accident. It was the decision that killed her. Political. Military. Ideological. There is no mistake in the coordinates behind her corpse—it is Vladimir Putin.

The missiles hitting maternity clinics in Ukraine today were not lost in flight. They are a direct expression of Russian state policy—the policy of extermination, the policy of denying the right to life, to birth, to a future. The attack on the hospital in Kamianske was not an incident. It is the plan. Diana is not collateral damage. She is the target.

In the impact zone: the maternity ward and the therapeutic department of the municipal hospital. Two people died. At least five injured. Two women are in critical condition—one of them is pregnant. Completely destroyed roofs. Smashed windows. A three-story building was destroyed. A pregnant woman was killed. There is no military term for this. There is only one term: war crime!

As I write these lines, the West is behaving as if Diana had died of a cold. Out of carelessness. The weather. No. Diana was killed by the explosive warhead of a Russian missile in the heart of Europe. In broad daylight. And no one responded.

Europe, which has spent decades building up the myth of “never again”, doesn’t know how to say “enough” today. The UN drafts declarations. The G7 expresses its “deep concern”. And the world goes on—without Diana, without children, without dignity. The most frightening thing is that nobody pretends to be surprised anymore. The murders of pregnant women in Ukraine are no longer shocking news. They have become part of the media noise. Another attack. Another number. Another day in Russia’s war against Ukraine. But Diana is not a number. Diana is the face of this war. Her unborn child is a symbol of everything Russia wants to destroy: the future, life, and hope.

And while Ukraine weeps, Donald Trump remains silent. The President of the United States of America, who boasted at the beginning of his second term that he would “bring peace in 24 hours”, today cannot even pronounce the name of the city where the pregnant woman was killed. Instead of defending order, he is destroying it. Instead of leading, he is running away. Instead of fighting Putin, he imitates and admires him. Trump doesn’t hate Ukraine. He doesn’t understand it. And what he doesn’t understand, he despises. Putin molds and humiliates him. Trump is not weak just because he is afraid of Putin. Trump is weak because he looks up to him.

Today, in July 2025, America is invisible. And while Washington remains silent, Berlin and Paris are calculating: how much longer can the war last, and how many more missiles have to fall for it to be worth giving up the illusion of dialogue with the Kremlin? How many women similar to Diana have to die before we stop talking about a “balance of interests”?

Europe is not reacting because it is divided, careful, and lacks decisive leadership. Germany avoids deeper military support. France sends statements of solidarity but avoids concrete steps. The EU institutions issue statements but do nothing to stop the aggressor. And while all this is happening, Russian missiles are hitting maternity clinics.

Ukraine is not waiting. Ukraine digs. Buries. Restores. And fights.

Maternity clinics are moved to basements. Operations are carried out under the light of lamps. Babies are born in emergency shelters. And no one asks whether it can be done, but how it must be done.

Because Diana has died. She is no longer with us. Her heart has stopped beating, like the heart of a child who did not have a chance to cry. But thousands of other women in Ukraine—pregnant women, doctors, soldiers, nurses, teachers, mothers—are still alive. And they are not giving up. They give birth, nurse, heal, defend, clear rubble, bury the dead… And the next day they get up again. Not because they believe in slogans, but because they know they have no other option. If they hesitate, not only will Ukraine’s struggle come to an end, but our collective defeat will also commence. That’s why they are a target. Because Russia knows that if it breaks them, it will have broken the rest of the country. It will have broken the spirit.
But it has not broken them. And that’s why Ukraine is standing.

And we, here in Belgrade, in Berlin, in Warsaw, in Paris, in London, and in Rome—we owe them more than just words. We owe them the truth. Diana was not injured. Diana was killed. Killed by Russian hands in hospital while she was waiting to give birth. But we owe them something more: the recognition that they are not just fighting for their children. They are also fighting for ours. For our hospitals, our borders, our peace. Because if Ukraine falls, another hospital will be next. In another city. In another country. In the seventh month of someone else’s pregnancy. If we don’t understand this now, maybe the next Diana will bear the name of our sister or daughter. Putin is testing the world. He is testing us with every missile fired. With every child’s skull that smashes on the concrete. With every mother who dies before holding her child in her arms. And right now, we are passing the test—like cowards! No answer. No consequences. No red line.

When a pregnant woman was killed in Mariupol in 2022, the world was in shock. When a pregnant woman was killed in Kherson in 2023, the world was worried. When a pregnant woman was killed in Kamianske in 2025— the world was silent. This is not fatigue. This is complicity.

Diana is looking at us. Not from billboards, not from museums, not from propaganda. She is looking at us from the holes in the ceiling of the hospital. She is looking at us through the smoke and the dust. She is looking at us through the blood on the walls of the incubator. She is looking at us from the silence of her own death. If we don’t answer—we will kill her a second time.

We don’t need another conference. We don’t need another speech. We don’t need another “deep concern” from the EU. We need the truth. And responsibility. Putin is a criminal. Trump is complicit. The West is hostage. And Diana is the proof.

And that is why this text is not meant to be an announcement. It is meant to be an outcry.

For Diana. For the child who had no time to cry. For Ukraine, which is giving birth under bombs. For all of us who have forgotten what it means to be human.