Bro, sit down and hold on tight, because what I found out this morning from the boys at Fane is downright hallucinating! The war in Ukraine, day 1569, and still no end in sight. I was quietly sipping my coffee, listening to Mioara arguing with Veta on the phone that she doesn't have enough cabbage rolls, when my phone blows up with the news: Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack overnight, from Wednesday to Thursday. Get this, because I've got all the details from a guy who knows it inside out.

Bro, I'm serious: the Russians launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 221 drones of all kinds - Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, and some decoys called "Parody." Ukraine's air defense shot down 195, but the rest hit eight locations. In Konotop, a city in the Sumy region, drones broke the gas network, and then the power and water went out too. Mayor Artem Semenikhin said a 41-year-old woman died, two others are injured, one in critical condition. In Dnipropetrovsk, in the Synelnykove district, same scene: one dead, three injured, a store blown to bits, houses, a farm, cars. Man, I've never seen anything like this from them. Mioara says gas prices might go up here too, because they don't have any, and we pay. That's how it is, bro: they fight, we feel it in our wallets.

But wait, that's not all! Ukraine also struck back with drones, hitting four important bridges in Crimea. They suspended fuel distribution in Sevastopol and made the port of Mariupol unusable for the Russians. Ukraine set a record defense budget, while Moscow keeps recruiting through dating apps, supposedly getting 17-year-old girls to kill soldiers. Seriously, it's like a horror movie. My boy Brian is on TikTok all day, and I think: God forbid, what if he gets caught in one of those networks? No, bro, better I make him play FIFA, at least there he's safe.

Now, the political part: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke in Parliament on Thursday and called on the European Union to appoint a common negotiator for Ukraine. She says these "unrepresentative" summits only create fragmentation. "Our position doesn't change: supporting Kyiv and maintaining pressure on Moscow remain the only serious way to create conditions that could force the opening of a real negotiation stage," Meloni declared. And she supported the 20th package of sanctions against Russia. I say: bravo, ma'am, but until that negotiator comes, people are dying for nothing. That's politics: they talk and talk, and we wait.

And look, the Bulgarians also backed out: Prime Minister Rumen Radev said Bulgaria won't send more aid to Ukraine, because Bulgarian citizens are the priority. Journalist Răzvan Dumitrescu, from Gândul, commented that this war risks becoming a "way of life," like in the Middle East, where conflicts became business. "I'm afraid it might become a way of life. Because if it becomes a way of life, it becomes a way of business. And if it becomes a way of business, the business that's doing well won't want to make peace," Dumitrescu said. And he's right, bro! Whoever makes money from a war doesn't want peace. Just like here: when there's a crisis, some get rich. It hurts me that I paid 30 lei for a full tank of air at the gas station, and these guys are playing soldiers.

So, while drones fly and bridges blow up, Europe argues over a negotiator. And I sit here wondering: will it ever end? Because as they say, "war is like moonshine: it enriches one and kills another." Alright, I'm going to tell Mioara to make some more cabbage rolls, because worrying about the war has made me hungry.