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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 all?
Ukraine has welcomed military aid – some $350 million extra from Washington – but calls for more. A no-fly zone perhaps, to keep Russian jets out of Ukrainian skies? Or would such a move simply risk further esclation?
Small-arms fire and explosions were heard in Kyiv's northern district of Obolonsky, as what appeared to be an advance party of Russia's invasion force left a trail of destruction. Ukrainian officials also said on Friday that radiation levels had increased in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and warned that the capture of the plant by Russian soldiers could have "terrible consequences". There was also a raft of sanctions in the cultural and sporting worlds, with UEFA deciding that Paris will host this season's Champions League final instead of Saint Petersburg.
The United States and its allies have made it clear that they will not send a single soldier to Ukraine, but are instead supplying the Ukrainian army with arms and have started to dial up sanctions. Sanctions, however, can pose one of two problems: They can be ineffective - see the 2014 measures against Moscow after its annexation of Crimea - or they can have a boomerang effect.
Nine years have passed since then-president François Hollande swooped in to stop the southward advance of a jihadist insurgency and free the far north. But military victory was never going magically fix the politics of one of the poorest countries of the world.
The escalation over Ukraine serves as a reminder that the planet has probably reached peak oil and that without fuel – in this case Russian gas – we're vulnerable to much more than coronaviruses. The same holds true for the prized rare minerals of the information age, like the cobalt in our cell phones. So how are ordinary citizens managing? And how are they reacting? We put the question to our guests.
About 120,000 or more troops are stationed on the eastern Ukraine border overlooking Donbas, the Russian-speaking region where separatists have been in conflict with Kiev since 2014. Meanwhile, more than a dozen countries – including the UK and the US – have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine, warning commercial flights may soon not be possible as several airlines have already suspended flights.
It's winter and the United Nations estimates that more than half the population doesn't have enough to eat. With famine and shuttered health care facilities come disease and a spike in epidemics like pneumonia. Are the Taliban fit to govern? Those who have fled or are in hiding argue not. But what happened during the two decades when they were out of power?