This morning, I visited the site where a Russian missile struck a residential building in Kyiv. An ordinary apartment building. The missile went through every floor, all the way down to the basement. 23 people were killed by this single Russian strike alone. My condolences to their families and loved ones.

The rescue operation lasted nearly 40 hours – until the very last moment, rescuers were trying to pull people out alive from under the rubble. In total, with that massive strike on Ukraine, the Russians killed 30 people and injured 172. There was no military purpose to this strike whatsoever. It brought Russia absolutely nothing in military terms. It was deliberate terror, the same thing Russia’s army under Putin has done everywhere, from Chechnya to Syria. This is the only thing Putin and his Russia truly know how to do well – kill and destroy.

And this is exactly the dimension that unites Russia with regimes like those currently in Iran and North Korea. Right now, Russia is trying to save Iran’s nuclear program, there’s no other way to interpret its public signals and behind-the-scenes activity. When one of their accomplices loses the ability to export war, Russia suffers, and tries to intervene. This is cynicism at its worst. And this, time and again, proves that aggressive regimes must not be allowed to unite and become partners.

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