Editorial: Le Monde

• Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, is facing constant devastation due to daily bombing from Russia.
• The city's energy infrastructures are being systematically destroyed, which threatens to leave the city without heating.
• Despite strong resistance, Russia's current tactic seems to be to make the city uninhabitable to force its inhabitants to abandon it.
• Ukrainian forces are outnumbered and exhausted, waiting for reinforcements that are having difficulty in arriving.
• The Russian economy remains firm despite sanctions from the west, thanks to evasion of these sanctions by certain countries, including China.
• Ukraine is in a lack of anti-aircraft defense means.
• General Christopher Cavoli has declared that Ukraine cannot face the situation alone, and that Russia continues to pose an existential threat to the country.
• Urgent additional military support is needed for Ukraine, and Europe is working on gathering resources.
• In the US, certain members of the Republican Party are blocking financial aid promised by the Biden administration.

Conclusion: It is vital to put an end to the delays in assistance to Ukraine to prevent collapse and counter the Russian threat. Sanctions on Russia have not been effective enough and the forthcoming help seems to fell short and/or late.

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