do this has to consult multiple different commands that lost senior officials. again, that point to western intelligence helping to predict and precisely identify these guys and let the ukrainians do the targeting. all signs point to the humiliation putting putin in a rational place where he has to back off and focus his forces in the east. that s the best we can take out of it. to elise s point there s a slippery slope here for kyiv and the west as we watch what the blow back may be. european officials are drafting an embargo on russian energy. coal was banned, allowing a four month transition period to complete ongoing order. the new york times reports the bloc is now likely to adopt a similarly phased ban on russian