CNN: Putin is committing massacre in Ukraine

Ukraine's fate clearly emphasizes that even 20 years after the start of the 21st century and despite the world's attempts to learn from history, the only autocrat, who ruthlessly created a political system to eliminate disputes and realities, has the power to cause loss and misery.

Putin's willingness to bomb Ukraine in order to subdue it and the senseless shooting of innocent civilians, which he points out are close to the Russians, means that humanitarian disaster has probably just begun. Over a million refugees have already left their homes, according to the United Nations. Millions more likely follow after family life, jobs, and entire communities have been destroyed. Without counting thousands of civilians who will probably die in the long Russian blitzkryg.

Although there are speculations about Putin's intentions and spirituality, and there is a great public interest in the courage of Ukrainians who claim to resist the invasion, it is essential that the world properly understand the fundamental reality of the obvious crimes of war now taking place in Ukraine.

On the outskirts of Kiev on Sunday, two young children and two adults were killed by a Russian bombing while trying to escape.

“Family died in front of my eyes,” said Oleksandr Marksin, mayor of Irpin. Meanwhile, the dead lay undead in the burned ruins of Kharkiv, a town of 1.5 million people who are under prolonged bombings that serve as a warning to Kiev's possible destiny.

Other Ukrainians were surprised by the shocking promotions of humanitarian corridors from Russia. The photographs and videos of Ukrainian men by putting their families on evacuation trains and starting in combat are raising the trauma of the history filled with blood.

If the thrilling video for Ukraine had been shot in black and white, it would have been easy to replace it with a landmark World War II movie magazine, the last time such scenes of destruction and cruelty of a sovereign nation are caused by each other in Europe.

And it all stems from the mind of the Russian president, apparently motivated by his historic wounds as a KGB officer in East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell. Seeking to re-vise the post-Cold War Europe map, Putin three decades later invented a reverberation against these joyous scenes with his ruthless bombings designed to revive Russia as a superpower.

The events of last bloody weekend stress that, despite the impressive strengthening of Western sanctions that are drowning the Russian economy and the courage of Ukrainian civilians and their president's prayers, Ukraine's future is bleak. Putin questions Ukraine's survival as a national state.

The sweeping Western sanctions could ultimately provoke sufficient resistance within Russia, where citizens are suffering from economic collapse and lead to the collapse of President Putin. Handing over weapons to Ukraine from the West will certainly increase the losses and cost of Moscow's invading forces and possible invasion.

But the reality that the West will not directly intervene to avoid a escalation of the conflict with Russia, which could spur a nuclear confrontation, gives Putin an advantage and deepens Ukraine's tragedy. Sooner or later the world could see a slaughter that was powerless to prevent. This terrible opportunity was highlighted in last Sunday's heartbreaking call by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for help.

We are people and it is your humanitarian duty to protect us, protect civilians and you can do it. If you don't, if you don't at least give us planes to protect yourself, there's only one conclusion you want them to kill us slowly”, Zelensky told the world.

As the US discusses a plan to send Polish Russian production fighter aircraft to Ukraine and discusses a full embargo on Russian oil exports, the West is close to reaching the border of what can be done without provoking a direct conflict with Putin. Therefore, American messages have begun to stress the size of what has already been done to help. These include Western sanctions that turned the Russian economy into the dark Soviet era and an arsenal of antitank and antiaircraft missiles delivered to Ukraine in the new secret Western war with Russia.

The way Putin himself pushed his country into war, destroyed internal disputes, and rebuked seemingly confused national security officials on television, shows how much war in Ukraine is a personal crusade.

His unbound speech about the war, including false claims on de-nazim in Ukraine, has raised concerns whether a leader who was once considered a ruthless and cold lawyer of Russian national interests has slipped into a parallel mental reality. This, along with its nuclear threats, has raised concern about how far a desperate Russian leader, who has in fact made his political survival a conditional war that turns into a swamp.

“He has entered a conflict in which he will either achieve an expensive military victory or be stuck in a long military swamp, at the same time facing another front, which is a falling economy in his country”, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said in American media.

“The combination of these two things puts us in a very dangerous position. And this is that Putin will have to do something, a escalation, a bit of intensifying this crisis, in order to establish a strategic balance between his position and the West. And I'm worried it might be”, he added.

In two and a half weeks of the invasion, Putin has done nothing but escalate, despite a calm Western response to his nuclear provocations. It remains unclear how he would react to the possibility that Poland or Romania will hand over fighter aircraft to Ukraine, a move that the two former Warsaw Pact countries are likely to have approached an indirect conflict with Russia.

However, no matter how much trouble the new Western steps can cause, all indicators show that Putin is unlikely to prevent him from expressing his obsession, saying Ukraine should never be allowed to join the West even if it means it also destroys its own people.

As Zelensky said in a new video message on Sunday evening: “Guxing the aggressor is a clear signal to the West that sanctions imposed against Russia are not enough”.