It is right to know a few names, a few faces. Otherwise, victims are swallowed up in abstraction. “In a split second, Russia wipes out three generations of a Ukrainian family.” That is a headline from the BBC. The victims are a mother, Sophiia Buhayova, who was 27; her son, Adam Buhayov, who was a year and five months; and Sophiia’s grandmother — Adam’s great-grandmother — Tetiana Tarasevych, who was 68.

Sophiia’s mother — Tetiana’s daughter, Adam’s grandmother — survived them. She is Yuliia Tarasevych, 46. I will quote the BBC report:

Yuliia accepts that life goes on in other countries.
“People can’t live in constant stress, thinking only about us,” she says.
“Still, I would like them to remember that there’s a war happening nearby, where not only soldiers but also civilians are dying.”
She wants the world to know the names — Adam Buhayov, Sophiia Buhayova, and Tetiana Tarasevych.

• “Death Toll In Poltava Strike Rises To 14 As More Bodies Pulled From Rubble.” For that story, go here. And meet, even posthumously, Sofia Javorska:

• Nika Zenova is the daughter of Svitlana and Oleksandr Levytsky. Her parents were killed in a Russian attack on Sumy. She recognized her parents’ apartment by the wallpaper. To see a picture of them, go here.

• A report from today, Tuesday:

A Russian missile attack against the town of Izium in Kharkiv Oblast on Feb. 4 killed at least five people and injured at least 43, the State Emergency Service said.
Seven people remain hospitalized, including a 15-year-old girl who suffered shrapnel wounds. She is in a condition of medium severity, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov. Two more children are among the wounded.
The governor initially reported four people killed — two men and two women. A fifth victim was reported later during the day when rescue services found a body in the rubble.

• Putin’s Russia is a terror-state. Day after day, it targets innocent people, in an effort to destroy and re-subjugate a neighbor, Ukraine. In the Free West, Ukraine has many supporters. But so does Putin. It was this way in Soviet times as well.

• Secretary of State Marco Rubio has tapped Darren Beattie to be acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. Here is a sample of Mr. Beattie’s work:

Here is another sample:

Paul Ingrassia is President Trump’s liaison to the Department of Justice. Here is a sample of his work, from 2023:

• Michael McCaul is a different kind of Republican. Until last month, he was the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. A report begins,

More than 200,000 children have been abducted by Russia since the start of its invasion of Ukraine, [McFaul] said, citing U.S. estimates.
“If a foreign adversary took 260,000 of our kids, and they were in indoctrination camps, I mean, how would we feel about that?” McCaul asked Fox News Digital.

Later in his remarks, McCaul said, “It’s just evil.”

• A headline: “Ukraine plans to open over 150 underground schools by fall 2025.” The article explains, “Ukraine’s underground schools are a response to Russian aerial attacks, which regularly target civilian infrastructure, including education facilities.”

• From RFE/RL (our combination of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty): “Photos capture the aftermath of a Russian strike that wiped out several vintage vehicles at the lavish former residence of Ukraine’s notorious ex-president Viktor Yanukovych.” (Article here.) Pity.

But something to soothe the loss: “Yanukovych’s son made billions selling coal from occupied Ukrainian territories.” (Article here.) The son, Oleksandr, is of course a Russian citizen.

• Roman Shvartsman is a Jewish leader in Ukraine. (The president himself — the president of the country — is also Jewish: Volodymyr Zelensky.) Born in 1936, Shvartsman is today 88. Last week, he addressed Germany’s Bundestag. “Back then, Hitler wanted to kill me for being Jewish,” he said. “Now Putin’s trying to kill me for being Ukrainian.”

Shvartsman also said, “I have already been able to escape extermination once. Now I am an old man and must once again live with the fear that my children and grandchildren could fall victim to a war of extermination.” He also had a warning, for people in the greater world: “Those who believe Putin will be happy with just Ukraine are wrong.”