Russia’s Gas War on Ukraine Flames Out

KYIV, Ukraine—After more than a week of snowstorms and gray skies, Monday morning dawned sunny and clear in Ukraine’s capital city.

Similarly, on that day, the clouds had also somewhat parted over a forestalled gas war with Russia—albeit briefly.

“The period of gas blackmail of our country by Russia has already passed,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Friday in Kyiv. “No one will put Ukraine on its knees.”