A month into Russia’s savage and brutal invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is nowhere close to the swift victory he was expecting. Thanks to the heroic resistance of the Ukrainians and several blunders and miscalculations by Moscow, Russian forces are making few advances and control only one of Ukraine’s main cities. However, this status quo has come at a huge price for the Ukrainians as Russia’s military has unleashed a vicious bombardment of the country’s infrastructure and civilian targets, including hospitals and schools. There can be no doubt that war crimes have been committed by Russia and those responsible for such atrocities will one day have to be held accountable. The siege of Mariupol, for example, has been particularly brutal, and reflects a cruel Russian military doctrine which was used in both Chechnya and Syria: cut off the target from outside help, bombard it relentlessly and starve the population, thus making life for civilians unbearable – with the aim of getting the city to surrender. The response so far by both NATO and the EU, as well as the blocs’ allies, has been swift and commendable, and the West has put up an incredibly united front, something Putin...