Wow. The US media forced Putin to make unrealistic demands to reorganise European security, and now they have forced him to send troops into the Donbass.

Sorry for the irony, but I don't see Biden's signature on this crisis. My tendency was to see Putin messing with the US midterms by humiliating Biden.

On the other hand, I don't understand the gas market. An explainer diary would be useful, becaus I think you do.

For starters : is it a given that Russian gas stops flowing through Ukraine today? Or is that contingent on whether they cross the ceasefire line?

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}