Russia is contemplating targeted attacks on Ukraine's energy substations to pressure Kyiv into unfavorable peace negotiations, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
This is a direct consequence of the US for waffling in support of Ukraine and is a sign of utmost weakness from russia.
EU has been super weak, when arguably they have more at stake.
It didn’t help that Merkel de facto supported russian genocidal imperialism (even though she framed this in a more PR friendly manner).