After Russia’s attack on a children’s hospital, Biden must release Ukraine

Vladimir Putin is targeting hospitals and other purely civilian targets across Ukraine, although President Biden is largely preventing Kyiv from even Military Assets in Russia.

On Monday, Russia bombed Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital in Kyiv as part of a sweeping daytime attack on cities across the country, killing at least 36 people and wounding 137 (the death toll is expected to rise as an unknown number remain trapped under the rubble).

In fact, since the beginning of the war, Russia has attacked hundreds of hospitals, clinics and ambulances, but specifically against sick people. Children could be a new low.

In April, the World Health Organization found that nearly a fifth of confirmed attacks in Ukraine in the first three months of 2024 were targeted at emergency services.

This is Putin’s modus operandi: During the Syrian civil war, Russia systematically attacked hospitals.

Ukraine has the firepower to strike back – if only Biden would allow President Volodymyr Zelensky to use it.

Instead, Joe is hampering Ukraine’s ability to win this war by largely banning the use of U.S.-supplied weapons to attack military targets in Russia, essentially forcing Kiev to fight with one hand behind its back.

In June, Biden relaxed this restriction, but only in areas where Russia had already crossed the border, and it continues to prohibit the use of ATACMS (long-range guided missiles) at targets inside Russia.

With Biden in handcuffs, Ukraine can only play defensively with US weapons, but never offensively.

As Dalibor Rohac noted in the Washington Post, “We never set red lines for Putin. We only set red lines for ourselves and then gradually relax them.”

Biden’s endless “fear of escalation” is paralyzing our allies (in the Middle East as well as in Ukraine).

We wonder: Did the President’s advisers even tell him this?