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🦁 The Observer view on Russia: Putin's retaliation against Ukraine must persuade Biden to relent over arms

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Putin’s boycotting of the anniversary of the Geneva conventions further demonstrates his opinions on international humanitarian law and the laws of warThe huge waves of lethal Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities last week had three main aims. One was to re-terrorise a civilian population grown accustomed to a certain level of attrition, while targeting energy and other key national infrastructure ahead of winter. Vladimir Putin’s crude message: if we cannot defeat you on the battlefield, we will try to scare, freeze and starve you into submission instead.Russia’s second objective was to exact revenge for Ukraine’s audacious military incursion into its Kursk region, begun early last month.

The Guardian     Sep 01, 2024