It's easy to feel helpless when we’re confronted by further chilling reports from Ukraine and new threats from Russia’s meglomaniac leader, Vladimir Putin.
What can we do, in the face of the suffering of young and old, and the frightening prospect of a wider European war?
Respect, then, to the Merseyside dockers who refused to unload Russian oil bound for Stanlow Oil Refinery, Cheshire, in solidarity with the Ukrainians.