This week has felt like Ukraine and the rest of eastern Europe were on the edge of a precipice, with each day bringing a different degree of escalation.
It is against this background that the deployment of US ARACMS by Ukraine into Russian territory and Russian reprisal of deploying Oreshnik in Dnipro, Ukraine should be explained and understood.
Putin carefully leaves unstated a much more terrifying implication: that the Russians are quite capable of attaching nuclear warheads to such missiles ...