As Russian missiles pounded Kyiv in the war’s worst aerial assault, conservative influencer Benny Johnson was chasing clicks. Johnson, a professional rage-peddler, blasted out gruesome footage of the murder of a Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska, turning Moscow’s war of aggression into culture-war fodder.

That very night, half a world away, another young Ukrainian woman, Viktoria Grebenyuk, and her infant son were killed in Kyiv — not by random street crime, but by Moscow’s deliberate and methodical campaign to erase Ukrainian identity.

Three innocent lives were taken — one in North Carolina and two in Kyiv — but four crimes were committed.

Iryna Zarutska was slaughtered in cold blood aboard a train in Charlotte just minutes after boarding. Wearing headphones and suspecting nothing, she was heading home from her shift at a pizzeria when surveillance footage shows Decarlos Brown Jr. — a man with 14 prior arrests and documented mental health issues — lunging at her with a pocketknife, stabbing her in the neck and chest. Passengers screamed and scattered as she collapsed. She died at the scene.

In the second heinous act, Viktoria Grebenyuk and her infant son Roman fell prey to Moscow’s

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