I’ve often spoken about Russian behavior, but this time I want to share an example that makes it clearer than any explanation. Russia has attacked the Kremenchuk refinery multiple times, shutting it down completely. The refinery was already out of service, but Moscow kept striking anyway—to destroy what remained, making any future reconstruction either impossible or extremely costly. In short, they wanted to finish it off. The first missile strikes came in April 2022, followed by another in May. Then, in June 2022, a Russian missile hit a busy shopping center in Kremenchuk, killing more than 20 civilians according to Ukrainian officials. At the start of the war, Ukraine faced temporary fuel shortages. But they quickly solved the problem by diversifying supplies and importing from Europe. Today, Ukraine gets its fuel from European routes. Yet Russia continues to strike Kremenchuk—not out of military necessity, but out of a destructive obsession, to erase the city’s infrastructure a...