It might be summer in Europe but there’s a chill in Kyiv. Russia may not have won a decisive military victory in Ukraine, but it is winning the energy war.

Last week a posse of European political leaders visited Kyiv to duchess Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The body language was tense. French President Emmanuel Macron in a sharp suit, Zelensky in a military T-shirt. Smiles and rhetoric from the Europeans, a grim-faced Ukrainian president.