I ask myself this question every time Russians interrupt my sleep with dozens of ballistic missiles. Screenshot of messages Mariana Lastovyria sent during the ballistic missile attack on August 5. But being jolted awake by the blast of a ballistic missile every other night adds an entirely new layer of horror. As if 30 ballistic missiles are something we should have learned to accept as normal. Two months later, ballistic missiles, once relatively rare and mostly used to target energy infrastructure, became commonplace in Kyiv.