What should be home video footage coming out of Ukraine drastically changes when a Russian warship off the coast unleashes a salvo of guided missiles towards the country of Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the written word, writers have imagined dystopian hell-holes and turned them into fictional universes. Worlds with endless pain and misery, often set in a nightmare-scape full of images that come close enough to matching reality that the reader can suspend their disbelief long enough to imagine themselves living in the vision the writer has dreamed up. There is zero shortage of these images in fictional writing and screenplays, and hundreds of them are brought to fruition every single year by the men and women with imaginations great enough to bring them to us.

This footage coming out of Ukraine isn't from a motion picture or book however. It's not the cover art for a book or the trailer of a movie that's soon to release in a theater near you. It's the reality of the situation on the ground in Ukraine, and this video shows just how quickly your world can turn into a grim universe based on the needs and feelings of madmen who don't even know you exist.

For the rest of this kid's life, they're going to remember this exact moment in time. Fortunately, we have a video of it, so even though we're not living it, we can remember it with them. We can all, as a collective species a dozen years from now, look back on this moment and remember the time this kid went for a swim on the beach with their parents with the backdrop of life being a half dozen Russian warships firing salvo after salvo of missiles overhead.