A note to Europe’s leaders: When it comes to sending sufficient aid to help Ukraine end Russia’s invasion, if not now, when?
In October, I visited and wrote about a critical mine at Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, which had become the primary focus of Russia’s efforts to maximize the territory it holds amid looming economic pressures from the war at home.
At the time, Russian forces were just 20 kilometers (12 miles) away. Now that’s 5 kilometers. Suicide drones are hitting civilian cars around the mine and Metinvest, the steel company that owns it, last week it had closed and evacuated one of three shafts. There’s little hope of holding out for more than a few days longer at this point, a loss that would cost Ukraine — a nation at war — as much as half of its future steel output.
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