It's cold and dark in Kyiv

While Putin and Trump play their ceasefire games, Russia's dictator continues to rain drones and missiles on Ukraine and its capital, Kyiv, where the 7 a.m. temperature this morning showed 2 deg Fahrenheit -- 17 below zero Celius. It's now morning here in New Hampshire, where I'm enjoying a bit warmer climate of 6 above (minus 15 Celsius). This has been a brutal, oldfashioned winter in the US Northeast, with a foot and a half of snow on the ground and weeks going by without the thermometer climbing above freezing.

Last night saw 85 Russian drones launched against Ukraine, with 64 intercepted by antiaircraft defenses. The barrage killed five civilians and wounded nineteen, with the worst damage -- as usual this winter -- inflicted on the embattled country's power plants. Tens of thousands of households in Kyiv are without heat or light today, and the temperature won't climb above freezing there, either, not today and not in the week ahead.