Adaobi Nnani is face Russia’s denials cannot erase

By Dotun Olayemi
Adaobi Nnani survived the blast. She did not survive the war. That is the plain truth of it, and everything else that follows is just the world trying to explain how something so simple can also be so cruel.
What happened in Kharkiv on June 29 was a single guided bomb, dropped on the Kholodnohirskyi district, the kind of strike that has become so common in Kharkiv that it barely makes national news anymore. There was no trick needed that afternoon, no confusion to create. One bomb was enough.
Nnani Adaobi Marian was 23 years old, a Nigerian student in her final year at Kharkiv National Medical University. She was caught in the blast together with her close friend,...