If Putin is allowed to wipe out Ukraine's cities and deliberately slaughter civilians he will threaten other European countries, writes columnist trudyrubin.
amongst experts that Putin believes he can’t afford any deal short of abject Ukrainian surrender, lest he face humiliation and possible ouster. Several Russian attempts to assassinate Ukraine’s heroic President Volodymyr Zelensky have been foiled.before Congress on Tuesday that the Russian leader is “angry and frustrated right now” after miscalculating that Ukraine would be quickly defeated.
President Zelensky begs to differ. And because the Ukrainian military has done so much better than NATO nations expected, some way should be found to get the Polish planes into their hands. Why can’t NATO consider a lesser variant of a no-fly zone over the western part of Ukraine, which Russia has not yet besieged? That would permit refugee convoys to travel safely toward Poland and protect the city of Lviv which is crammed with refugees from elsewhere in the country.