It appears that civilian casualties are still only in triple digits. Putin knows full well that he can't declare victory over cities reduced to bloody rubble; but it has perhaps started to seep in that he's not going to win very many hearts and minds by starving cities into submission, either.

So we're back to where we were a week ago : what's the endgame?

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