been hit before

Aramoun is a religiously mixed area and until Wednesday it was deemed safe because it had not been hit before.

Britain’s state-funded health system has been hit before, including during a 2017 ransomware attack that froze computers at hospitals across the country, closing down wards, shutting emergency rooms and bringing treatment to a halt.

Donetsk city, the epicenter of Russian efforts to grab Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region since 2014, has been hit before by Ukrainian artillery and sporadic street fighting, but Sunday’s destruction of the main administrative building was the first time that a seat of Russian power in the city center had been hit so hard.

“They are going to take a couple of breaths,” Berhalter said, “and it’s going to hit them like they’ve never been hit before.”

She said she’s never been hit before and was dazed and stunned to be targeted because of her race.