Putin is cold: Russia cannot be allowed to freeze and starve Ukraine

Having suffered deadly wartime winters over generations, perhaps Russia is more sanguine than most about its plans to devastate Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as freezing temperatures arrive. But this is no small act; it is attempted mass murder. All the nations that have thus far unified to oppose Vladimir Putin’s aggression must be equally unified in opposing the brutal attack on the civilian population. Already, Russian strikes have damaged an estimated 40% of Ukraine’s power grid, forcing the under-siege government to impose rolling blackouts to prevent a total network failure. Now deploy...