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DIARIOPeriodismo con carácter

NACIONAL

Insensato y ofensivo sugerir que

el INE mendigue coperachas

para elecciones y consultas. PAG. 7

EL ASALTO A LA RAZÓN

Bartolizado ya, ¿y limosnero además?

CARLOS MARÍNcmarin@milenio.com

Jorge Zepeda Patterson“La necesidad de calmar a los mercados puede ser

contraproducente” - P. 14

Arturo Zaldívar“Desolación y

esperanza en la obra de Rafael Cauduro” - P. 13

Enrique Lendo“Crisis poscovid y el

futuro sustentable de las empresas” - P. 18

ROBERTO VALADEZ, CDMX

La empresa fue seleccio-nada entre siete finalistas y opera-rá antes del 21 de marzo, fecha de apertura de la terminal aérea. PAG. 22

Eligen a Holiday Inn para operar el hotel principal del aeropuerto de Santa Lucía

Finaliza parlamento abiertoGas, base de la transición energética en México: Nahle SILVIA RODRÍGUEZ - PAG. 20

Ricky Martin. “Me gusta verme bien a mi edad; no cambiaría nada de lo vivido”

P. 28-29

LOS ESPÍAS DE PUTIN PILLADOS POR EL FBI EU ha detenido en una década a 15 civiles reclutados por MoscúLAURA SÁNCHEZ LEY - PAG. 10

REPORTAJE

Ucrania. Suiza deja la neutralidad y sancionará a Rusia Finlandia también tomó partido y apoyará con armas a la nación in-vadida, que ayer cerró la prime-ra ronda de conversaciones con Moscú sin mayor avance, mientras la FIFA expulsó a Rusia del Mundial Qatar 2022. PAGS. 8, 9, 34, 35 Y EL MUNDO

Anulan delito de ultraje a autoridad; seguirá con otro nombre: Cuitláhuac

Veracruz. La Corte confirma que el artículo 331 del Código Penal del estado viola el derecho de expresión; el gobernador prepara iniciativa para rebautizar el ilícito

J. A. BELMONT E I. ZAMUDIO, CDMX

La Corte invalidó el delito de ultrajes a la autoridad previs-to en el Código Penal de Veracruz por considerarlo violatorio del de-recho de la libertad de expresión.

En respuesta, el gobernador Cuitláhuac García aseguró que ya prepara una iniciativa de ley en la que ese ilícito tendrá otro nombre, pero servirá para lo mismo: prote-ger a autoridades de agresiones.

El senador Ricardo Monreal señaló que tras la decisión de los ministros lo que sigue es “luchar para que salgan todas las perso-nas privadas de su libertad por este ominoso delito”. PAGS. 6 Y 7

Busca los cadáveresFiscalía de Michoacán admite el fusilamientoO. RÍOS Y E. GUZMÁN - PAGS. 6 Y 7

JORGE MARTÍNEZ, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

El denominado Blindicide es usado para enfrentar el poder de fuego del cártel Jalisco en es-tados como Zacatecas. PAG. 4

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Van de operadores

para campañas,

Eduardo Ramírez,

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PERSONAS retiran escombros, luego de un bombardeo en Okhtyrka, en la

región de Sumy, Ucrania, ayer.

UN SUJETO lava las huellas de sangre, el domingo.

En medio de primera reunión sin acuer-dos, Putin ataca Járkov y condiciona fin de la guerra; exige a Ucrania no adherirse a la OTAN y reconocer a Crimea como rusa

Líder ruso impone medidas económicas ante desplome récord del rublo en 29 años; impide transferir divisas al exterior; ciudadanos rusos abarrotan cajeros

Señalan ministros que artículos restringen

libertad de expresión; advierten ambigüe-

dad que daba paso a violación a DH; inicia

lucha para liberar a presos: Monreal. pág. 4

Supera en dos meses a Mexicali y alcanza

nivel de Ciudad Juárez; SESNSP registra

3 crímenes de género en este año, en esa

alcaldía, cifra igual a la de todo 2021. pág. 11

Inconstitucional, delito de ultrajes a la autoridad en Veracruz: SCJN

XOCHIMILCO, EN TOP 3 DE FEMINICIDIOS COMETIDOS EN EL PAÍS

Partidos echan mano de destacados legis-

ladores y exgobernadores para reforzar es-

tados rumbo al 5 de junio; Morena redobla

apoyo en Tamaulipas e Hidalgo. pág. 6

Edil de San José de Gracia dice que sólo había 6 elementos

cuando ocurrió masacre, pero se replegaron; refuerzo estatal y

federal llega cuando ya no había cadáveres, sólo algunos restos

y casquillos; pudo ser enfrentamiento no ejecución, dice. pág. 3

QUINTO DÍA DE INVASIÓN: SE ACENTÚAN ACCIONES DE MUTUO DESGASTE

Ucrania bajo fuego y Rusia tocada por

primeras sanciones abren frágil diálogo

Por S. Reyes, B. Luna, O. Carvajal y A. Archundia

Presidente ucraniano firma solicitud de ingreso a la UE y mantiene resistencia; en Europa, Suiza, Suecia y Finlandia, de histo-ria neutral, ahora se suman a castigos

Deja FIFA a Moscú sin mundial; ONU alista condena al ataque; Corte Penal Internacio-nal abre indagatoria; hay 520 mil desplaza-dos; avión de México llega por paisanos

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Putin: Ucrania debe desmilitarizarse o no habrá arreglo

Finaliza primera negociación sin alto al fuego; abierta, segunda ronda

l ‘‘La solución pasa por aceptar nuestros intereses de seguridad’’

l EU y sus aliados pactan consolidar el apoyo financiero y militar a Kiev

l Biden minimiza el riesgo de una confrontación nuclear con Moscú

l Entreabre la UE el ingreso al país invadido, pero ‘‘no sería inmediato’’

juan pablo Duch, CorreSPonSaL, y agencias / P 2 y 4

Suman ya más de 500 mil refugiados: Acnur

▲ Centenares de miles de ucranios huyeron en trenes, autos o incluso a pie hacia países limítrofes desde el inicio de la ofensiva de rusia, informó el titular de la agencia de la organización de Naciones Unidas. Polonia acogió a gran parte de ellos, unos 280 mil, según los últimos

reportes. Hungría, moldavia, rumania y eslovaquia se sumaron a la ayuda. el programa mundial de alimentos lanzó un plan de emergencia para auxiliar a los desplazados. La imagen es en el puesto fronterizo polaco de medika. Foto afp. agencias / P 3

Moscú revira con el cierre de su espacio aéreo a 36 naciones ● El Banco Central de Rusia eleva a 20% su tasa para frenar caída del rublo

● EU y Canadá prohíben realizar transacciones financieras con esa entidad

● Precios del crudo rondan 100 dólares por barril ● Dará el viejo continente apoyo energético a Ucrania ● En México, bolsa y peso resisten los vaivenes

agencias, clara zepeDa y julio gutiérrez / P 19 y 20

Universidades de Europa expulsan a alumnos rusos ● Excluye la FIFA a esa nación del Mundial de Qatar; el COI y la UEFA se suman a los castigos

● Washington ordena la salida de 12 diplomáticos del Kremlin ante la ONU agencias / P 3, 4 y dePorteS

AMLO: la nave para repatriar esperará lo que sea necesario ● ‘‘No nos cerraremos a ninguna nación’’, enfatiza el Presidente; el avión de la FAM arribó a Rumania

n. jiménez, r. garDuño y e. olivares, enViado / P 7 y 8

Sobre el conflicto: fabrizio mejía / P 5

josé blanco / P 17

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Empresas mexicanas como Gru-ma, Bimbo y Nemak ya sufren los embates de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania.

Estas compañías, con operacio-nes en esas naciones, entre el vier-nes 25 de febrero y ayer lunes 28 perdieron poco más de 8 mil mi-llones de pesos de su valor de mer-cado en la BMV por el impacto del conflicto en las materias primas y las nuevas amenazas a las cadenas logísticas internacionales.

Un ejercicio elaborado por El Financiero reveló que Bimbo perdió 5 mil 728 millones de pe-sos; Gruma, mil 992.2 millones, y la autopartera Nemak, 305.5 millones de pesos. Rafael Mejía

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EfECTO guERRA. cae valor de capitalización de Gruma, bimbo y nemak por sus operaciones en rusia o ucrania

Pierden firmas mexicanas 8 mil mdp por conflicto

méxico reitera condena a ataques a ucrania“¡bAstA yA! LOs cOMbAtes deben cesAr”, cLAMAn en LA Onu. Pág. 28

putin habla con macron

Tras seis horas de negociaciones, las delegaciones rusa y ucrania-na determinaron un segundo encuentro, ‘pronto’. Sin embargo, Vladimir Putin en conversación con Emmanuel Macron, no quitó

el dedo del renglón; dijo que desistiría si se reconoce a Crimea como rusa y si se da la desmilita-rización de Ucrania. Moscú cerró el espacio aéreo a 36 países.

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More than 120,000 people were airlifted out of Afghanistan last August, most with just a fewhours to gather their belongings. Here are some of the keepsakes they chose. Pages A6-7.

What Afghans Couldn’t Leave Behind

WASHINGTON — Members ofthe Supreme Court’s conservativemajority on Monday questionedthe scope of the EnvironmentalProtection Agency’s ability to reg-ulate carbon emissions frompower plants, suggesting that the

justices could deal a sharp blow tothe Biden administration’s effortsto address climate change.

The questioning during the two-hour argument was mostly tech-nical, and several conservativejustices did not tip their hands.But those who did sounded skepti-cal that Congress had meant togive the agency what they said

was vast power to set nationaleconomic policy.

Climate change was mentionedin passing and only to buttress thepoint that an executive agencyshould not be allowed to tackle solarge an issue without expresscongressional authorization.

A ruling against the E.P.A.

Justices Dispute E.P.A. Power to Curb EmissionsBy ADAM LIPTAK

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The dangers of climate changeare mounting so rapidly that theycould soon overwhelm the abilityof nature and humanity to adapt,creating a harrowing future inwhich floods, fires and famine dis-place millions, species disappearand the planet is irreversibly dam-aged, a major new scientific re-port concluded.

The report, released on Monday

by the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change, a body of ex-perts convened by the United Na-tions, is the most detailed look yetat the threats posed by globalwarming. It concludes that na-tions are not doing nearly enoughto protect cities, farms and coast-lines from the hazards that cli-mate change has already un-

leashed, such as record droughtsand rising seas, let alone from theeven greater disasters in store asthe planet keeps heating up.

Written by 270 researchersfrom 67 countries, the report is “anatlas of human suffering and adamning indictment of failed cli-mate leadership,” said AntónioGuterres, the United Nations sec-retary general. “With fact uponfact, this report reveals how peo-ple and the planet are getting clob-bered by climate change.”

In the coming decades, as

Time Is Running Out to Fix Climate, Report Says

This article is by Brad Plumer,Raymond Zhong and Lisa Fried-man.

Warming May Outstripthe Ability to Adapt

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KYIV, Ukraine — The first talksbetween Ukraine and Russiaaimed at halting the Russian inva-sion were eclipsed Monday by adeadly Russian rocket assault onKharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largestcity, that raised new alarms abouthow far the Kremlin was willing togo to subjugate its smaller neigh-bor.

The bombardment of a resi-dential area of Kharkiv, whichmay have included internation-ally banned cluster munitions,killed at least nine civilians andwounded dozens.

With the Ukrainian-Russiantalks ending with little more thanan agreement to meet again, thebombardment signaled a poten-tial turn in the biggest militarymobilization in Europe sinceWorld War II, in which Russia hasmet unexpectedly stiff resistanceby Ukrainians and strong con-demnation from much of theworld.

“Today showed that this is notonly a war, it is the murder of us,the Ukrainian people,” Kharkiv’smayor, Igor Terekhov, said in avideo posted on Facebook. “Thisis the first time in its many-yearhistory that the city of Kharkivhas been through something likethis: shells that hit residentialhomes, killing and maiming inno-cent citizens.”

Russian forces have beenshelling the outskirts of Kharkiv,an eastern Ukrainian city with 1.5million people, since launching aninvasion last week. But they ap-peared to be avoiding heavily pop-ulated areas.

On Monday, the fifth day of theRussian assault, that changedwhen Kharkiv was hit by a bar-rage of rockets.

Mr. Terekhov said four peoplehad been killed when theyemerged from bomb shelters tofind water. And he said a family offive — two adults and three chil-dren — was burned alive when ashell hit their car. Another 37 peo-

ROCKET ASSAULTS KILL CIVILIANS IN UKRAINE AS TIGHTENING SANCTIONS ISOLATE MOSCOW

Alarm in Kharkiv— Talks Yield

No Progress

This article is by Valerie Hopkins,Steven Erlanger and MichaelSchwirtz.

A shelter at a children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday. Russians bombarded a residential area of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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CENTRAL BANK IS FROZEN OUTTaking aim at a key weakness forRussia: its currency. PAGE B1

BRUSSELS — When Russialaunched its invasion of Ukrainewith nearly 200,000 troops, manyobservers — and seeminglyPresident Vladimir V. Putin

himself — expectedthat the force wouldroll right in and the

fighting would be over quickly.Instead, after five days of war,what appears to be unfolding is aRussian miscalculation abouttactics and about how hard theUkrainians would fight.

No major cities have beentaken after an initial Russianpush toward Kyiv, the capital,stalled. While Russia appeared topull its punches, Ukraine mar-shaled and armed civilians tocover more ground, and its mili-

tary has attacked Russian con-voys and supply lines, leavingvideo evidence of scorched Rus-sian vehicles and dead soldiers.

But the war was alreadychanging quickly on Monday,and ultimately, it is likely to turnon just how far Russia is willingto go to subjugate Ukraine. TheRussian track record in the Syr-ian civil war, and in its own ruth-less efforts to crush separatismin the Russian region of Chech-nya, suggest an increasinglybrutal campaign ahead.

Signs of that appeared onMonday in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, when Rus-sia accelerated its bombardmentof a residential district where

As War Grinds Into 5th Day,Kremlin Starts Hitting Harder

By STEVEN ERLANGER

NEWSANALYSIS

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LONDON — In Switzerland, theLucerne music festival canceledtwo symphony concerts featuringa Russian maestro. In Australia,the national swim team said itwould boycott a world champi-onship meet in Russia. At theMagic Mountain Ski Area in Ver-mont, a bartender poured bottlesof Stolichnaya vodka down thedrain.

From culture to commerce,sports to travel, the world is shun-ning Russia in myriad ways toprotest President Vladimir V.Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Notsince the frigid days of the ColdWar have so many doors closed onRussia and its people — a world-wide repudiation driven as muchby the impulse to show solidarity

with besieged Ukrainians as byany hope that it will force Mr.Putin to pull back his troops.

The boycotts and cancellationsare piling up in parallel with thesanctions imposed by the UnitedStates, Europe, and other powers.Although these grass-roots ges-tures inflict less harm on Russia’seconomy than sweeping restric-tions on Russian banks or themothballing of a natural gas pipe-line, they carry a potent symbolicpunch, leaving millions of ordi-nary Russians isolated in an inter-connected world.

Among the most visible targetsof this opprobrium are culturalicons like Valery Gergiev, the con-ductor and a longtime backer of

Using Commerce and Culture,World Turns Its Back on Russia

By MARK LANDLER

Continued on Page A10

MOSCOW — For two decadesunder President Vladimir V.Putin, Russians reaped the boun-ties of capitalism and globaliza-tion: cheap flights, affordablemortgages, a plethora of importedgadgets and cars.

On Monday, those perks of mod-ern life were abruptly disappear-ing, replaced by a crush of anxietyas sanctions imposed by the Westin retaliation for Moscow’s inva-sion of Ukraine rattled the founda-tions of Russia’s financial system.

The ruble cratered, losing aquarter of its value, and the cen-tral bank shuttered stock tradingin Moscow through Tuesday. Thepublic rushed to withdraw cashfrom A.T.M.s, and Aeroflot, the na-tional airline, canceled all itsflights to Europe after countriesbanned Russian planes from us-ing their airspace.

Concern about travel was sogreat that some people rushed tobook seats on the few interna-tional flights still operating.

“I’ve become one concentratedball of fear,” said the owner of asmall advertising agency in Mos-cow, Azaliya Idrisova, 33. She saidshe planned to depart for Ar-gentina in the coming days andwas not sure whether her clientswould still pay her.

Compounding the pain was thedecision by Western countries torestrict the Russian central bank’saccess to much of its $643 billion inforeign currency reserves, undo-ing some of the Kremlin’s carefulefforts to soften the impact of po-tential sanctions and making itdifficult for the bank to prop up theruble.

Other moves struck at the heartof critical Russian industries.Shell, a company that for yearshelped Russia profit from its ener-gy riches, said it was exiting all itsjoint ventures with Gazprom, Rus-

Continued on Page A13

Anxious RussiansFeel Sting of

Penalties

This article is by AntonTroianovski, Ivan Nechepurenkoand Sergey Ponomarev.

The Ukraine crisis has supplanted thepresident’s domestic agenda as theprimary focus of his State of the Unionaddress on Tuesday. PAGE A18

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Biden Speech Gets a RewriteA Hall of Famer used to excellence withthe Yankees was an odd fit as chiefexecutive of a franchise reluctant tospend, our columnist writes. PAGE B9

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Jeter and Marlins Part WaysThe Belgian musician Stromae marriesserious subjects with dancey beats. Hisfirst album in years, “Multitude,” ex-pands his spectrum of sounds. PAGE C1

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KYIV, Ukraine — Russiaand Ukraine’s first round oftalks Monday failed to easeEurope’s biggest ground warin 75 years as Russianmissiles pounded Ukraine’s second-largest city, troopspressed closer to the capital,Kyiv, and more than half amillion Ukrainians fled thecountry.

International efforts topunish and isolate RussianPresident Vladimir Putin in-tensified and took aim at hiscountry’s most important fi-nances. Even traditionallyneutral Switzerland joinedthe growing coalition ofnations imposing a raft ofsanctions on Putin and asso-ciates, demanding Russiawithdraw its troops immedi-ately.

But Putin seemed to re-main impervious to the pres-sure and insisted Russia wasnot targeting civilians in itsattacks despite abundantevidence to the contrary.Rather than back down,Putin may be driven to in-creasingly brutal tactics,several experts warned.

Also Monday, the U.S. an-nounced that it was expel-ling 12 “intelligence opera-tives” from Russia’s UnitedNations embassy. The dozenwere engaging in activitiesnot consistent with theirstated positions as di-plomats, the U.S. mission tothe U.N. said — code for espi-onage. The expulsion wasnot related to Ukraine butcomes at a time of the most

Russia pounds Ukraine cityResidential neighborhoods shelled, civilians killed. Talks go nowhere.

IN LVIV in western Ukraine, people escaping the Russian invasion wait for a train to Poland. Others inUkraine have crossed into Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia and beyond, the U.N. refugee agency says.

Bernat Armangue Associated Press

By Nabih Bulos

and Henry Chu

[See Ukraine, A4]

Indoor masking will nolonger be mandatory at Cali-fornia schools and child-care facilities after March 11,a long-debated and much-anticipated move thatcomes as the state continuesits steady emergence fromthe Omicron wave ofCOVID-19.

Though Monday’s an-nouncement is just the lat-est move to loosen Califor-nia’s formerly strict face-covering policies, it maywind up being the most sig-nificant in the near term, al-lowing potentially millionsof K-12 schoolchildren to gomaskless in the classroomfor the first time in at least 10months.

In another major move,California officials also saidmasks will be strongly rec-ommended — but no longerrequired — for unvaccinatedindividuals in most indoor settings startingTuesday.

“Today is an importantday for California, one that isdriven by the data and thescience,” said Dr. MarkGhaly, California’s healthand human services secre-tary.

But, he added during abriefing call with reporters,the new guidance may “bereceived with some trep-idation, and acknowledgingthat and giving communi-ties time and space to makedecisions based on thethoughtful listening that Iknow will occur is very im-portant.”

Even with the state’s ac-tion, local officials retain theoption of keeping mask rules

State tolift maskrules forschools Districts will retainoption of keepingmandates, contingenton local health ordersand labor agreements.

By Luke Money,

Rong-Gong Lin II

and Howard Blume

[See Schools, A7]

MEDYKA, Poland —Marianna and her two youngchildren had finally made itto this Polish frontier townafter a grueling trip fromneighboring Ukraine.

The three had walkedmost of the last 20 miles,past queues of vehicles wait-ing to cross the border. Theirfamily was now split andtheir future unsure.

“I left my husband and father behind to come here,”she said. “That’s why mychildren asked me why I wascrying all the way here.”

Like others worriedabout the relatives left be-hind, Marianna declined togive her last name. Her planwas to eventually reach Italy,where her mother lives.

Her family is amongsome 500,000 Ukrainianswho have left their home-land since Russia invadedlast week.

Decked out in winter

Poland becomes haven for refugees War drives a westwardflight to safety

By Patrick J.

McDonnell

UKRAINIAN volunteers in Kyiv prepare to ship out as part of a defense forceagainst the invasion. Most men ages 18 to 60 are barred from leaving the country.

Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times

A COUPLE embrace at a railway station in eastern Ukraine before the womanboards a train heading west. Many refugees are winding up in neighboring Poland.

Andriy Andriyenko Associated Press

[See Refugees, A5]

Mascolo’s November 2020 deathset in motion a federal investigationthat uncovered a booming drugdelivery service Todorova is accusedof running from her apartment onHollywood Boulevard.

Sei, 36, who played a patrol cop onan episode of the CBS series“S.W.A.T.,” was one of about 19 driv-ers employed by Todorova to fan outnightly across Los Angeles, fillingclients’ drug orders in eight-hourshifts, the U.S. Drug EnforcementAdministration alleges in courtpapers.

Ray Mascolo was spendinga Sunday evening at homein Beverly Hills with hisChihuahua puppy, Ver-sace, when his yearlong

stretch of sobriety came to an end.“What’s good babe,” Mascolo, 37,

texted a woman listed in his iPhoneas “Mimi Snowie.”

She replied with a menu offeringacid ($40), ecstasy ($20), mush-rooms ($120) and half a dozen

other drugs.They cut a deal: a gram of cocaine

and two oxycodone pills for $160, plusa $30 delivery fee. Mimi, whose fullname is Mirela Todorova, dis-patched an aspiring television actor,Kather Sei, to drop off the drugs,authorities say.

The next morning, a mainte-nance worker walked into Mascolo’shouse on North Beverly Drive. TheChihuahua led him to Mascolo’sbody on the kitchen floor.

The drugs had been laced withfentanyl.

COLUMN ONE

Death exposes drug-dealing businessOverdose from tainted oxycodone put police on trail

By Michael Finnegan

[See Drugs, A12]

People’s lives and Earth’secosystems are at increasingrisk of catastrophe if nationsfail to quickly reduce emis-sions of planet-heatinggases, according to a newUnited Nations report thaturges humankind to scale upefforts to adapt and protectthe most vulnerable.

As global warming con-tinues to unleash deadlyheat waves, intensedroughts, floods and devas-tating wildfires, researchersfrom 67 countries called forurgent action to address thecrisis. They said many of thedangerous and acceleratingeffects can still be reduced,depending on how quicklythe burning of fossil fuelsand emissions of green-house gases are curbed.

“People and the planetare getting clobbered by cli-mate change. Nearly half ofhumanity is living in thedanger zone — now. Manyecosystems are at the pointof no return — now,” U.N.Secretary-General AntónioGuterres said. He called thereport “an atlas of humansuffering” and an indict-ment of failed leadership.“The world’s biggest pollut-

U.N. callsfor urgentaction onclimatethreatBy Ian James

[See Climate, A9]

Man guns downthree daughtersThe father opens fireduring a supervisedvisit at a SacramentoCounty church. Hethen kills himself.CALIFORNIA, B1

President willaddress nationJoe Biden’s State of theUnion comes as thecountry feels uneaseover the pandemic,inflation and the warin Ukraine. NATION, A6

WeatherMostly sunny.L.A. Basin: 86/57. B6

The “madman” theory isa long-standing politicaltrope, redolent of Cold War-era rivalries. The idea is tothrow opponents off balanceby making them believe youare so volatile, so hostile andso irrational that there’ssimply no telling what youmight do next.

As Europe’s largest landbattle in decades rages inUkraine, world leaders anddiplomats, intelligence ana-lysts and Kremlin watchersare all trying to decipherRussian President VladimirPutin’s mental state, par-ticularly in light of his latestnuclear saber rattling.

Is he genuinely unbal-anced, they ask, or just let-ting everyone think he is? Orsome combination of thetwo? Or something else?

Some veteran observersare wary of drawing conclu-sions from afar.

“Look,” said Sam Greene,

Putin’smentalstability isquestionedBy Laura King

ANALYSIS

[See Putin, A5]

Putin is ‘rattlingthe nuclear sword’ Does the U.S. have causeto worry about Russia’sthreat? PERSPECTIVES, A2

O.C. couple, baby escape from KyivU.S. pair reach Polandafter surrogate mothergives birth. CALIFORNIA, B1