Ukraine - hard choices

Apr 10 2022 The Guardian

The Observer editorial presents some hard choices for western leaders.

First, create a safe haven in western Ukraine, and inform Russia in advance of the location, and that it will be protected.

Second, declare city of Odesa off-limits.

Third, tell Russia that artillery and missile units that fire on civilians again, as in Kramatorsk, they will be deemed legitimate Nato military targets.

Fourth: supply fighter planes and tanks to Kyiv.

Fifth: block all Russian fossil fuel exports.

These may seem like radical choices, but if the alternative is the continuing slaughter of civilians, what choice is there, really?


The Observer view on the west’s response to war in Ukraine

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