Putin’s bombing blitz has backfired. That failure could send him closer to the nuclear brink, but the West is staring him down.
A Lada with the Russian ‘Z’ sign following a missile bombardment in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Thursday. Getty
″We do not want a World War.” In this uncharacteristically terse tweet, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke volumes.
Rumbling beneath the Russian missile strikes and the advancing Ukrainian tanks, there is a palpable sense that the stakes are rising inexorably higher.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-the-stakes-just-keep-on-rising-in-ukraine-20221013-p5bphj
