History will judge Vladimir Putin harshly for his war
Russia’s president has launched an unprovoked assault on his neighbour
BY THE TIME it began, early on a gloomy grey morning on February 24th, the onslaught against Ukraine ordered by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, had acquired a sickening inevitability. Yet nothing about this war was inevitable. It is a conflict entirely of his own making. In the fighting and the misery that is to come, much Ukrainian and Russian blood will be spilled. Every drop of it will be splattered on Mr Putin’s hands.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Where will he stop?”
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