Russia hit Kyiv with ballistic missiles after U.S. envoys left. [1] Reuters filed the strike as the weekend pause ended. [1] Al Jazeera filed the three-day halt tied to the visit ending. [2] A strike after a pause is not a merged death table. Print the strike. Do not invent a single certified toll.

Monday this paper had envoys leaving Moscow as Saxony-Anhalt counted. Tuesday the pause on the capital is over. Leave a named merged death table to the edition that owns a named merged table. A barrage is not a peace.

Print the strike. Tuesday is not a merged Kyiv toll. Envoys leaving is not a ceasefire. Print the resumed barrage as the named Tuesday hold. Leave a named death table to the edition that owns one.

Pauses in bombardment end the way they begin: without announcement. Envoys leaving Monday did not cause Tuesday's barrage, nor did the barrage answer them. Capitals talk; grids burn.

Burning grids burn; Tuesday's burn. Burning is the update. Talk continues in capitals.

Apartment windows face the same sky the envoys flew out of. A ballistic missile does not read a visiting schedule. Broken glass is the fact; a merged toll is not.

Envoys left; the barrage did not wait for a communiqué. Tuesday's glass is not a merged death table. Grids burn while capitals talk.

Envoys flew out; the barrage did not wait. Tuesday's glass is the fact. This desk has no merged death table to print.

Tuesday's glass is the fact. Grids burn while capitals talk. Tuesday prints glass, not a merged death table.

Tuesday's glass is the fact. Grids burn while capitals talk. Tuesday's Kyiv file stays a glassworks story, not a casualty ledger.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow