Does the West go all in? A third day of broken ceasefire promises in Ukraine clearly illustrates that Russia has gone all in and will not settle for anything short of victory on the battlefield. We ask about the latest out of the crucial port cities of Odessa and Mariupol and speculation over Poland sending Soviet-era fighter jets to its under-siege neighbour.
Beyond control of Ukrainian air space, there is the control of money flows, with a US-led push to cut credit and credit cards to Russia and now Washington's call to cut imports of Russian oil and gas. It can't be done on a dime. Can Europeans do it at all?
More broadly, as gas and bread prices soar, how much pain and sacrifice are citizens in the West willing to take? Vladimir Putin is betting that they are soft and unable to tough it out when prices rise and supply chains get disrupted.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Léopoldine Iribarren.
