Senate Democrats traveled to Kyiv and Odessa to show solidarity with the war-torn nation and make the case that the United States should do more, including imposing harsh sanctions on Russia.

Ukraine’s goal is to make the war futile for Russia by minimizing territorial losses, pushing Russian casualties higher than the numbers Moscow can recruit, and increasing the economic costs such that the war is unsustainable.

The war in Ukraine has not reached a deadlock. The reason is heavy Russian losses and ongoing Ukrainian offensive operations, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said in an interview with Le Monde.

Russian attacks and Ukrainian civilian deaths rose as President Trump’s peace talks dragged on during his first year back in the White House.

A rally marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s war in Ukraine is set to take place in Seattle on Sunday. The assembly will start at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at Pike Place Market before marching to Seattle Center’s mural amphitheater. A rally at the amphitheater will then last from 1-3 p.m.

A new round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine is set to go ahead this week. A senior Kremlin official said Monday that negotiations will take place Wednesday and Thursday in Abu Dhabi.

South Korean intelligence says around 6,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded while fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine.

Perceived wisdom has it that the longer a war goes on, the less enthusiastic a public becomes for continuing the conflict. After all, it is ordinary citizens who tend to bear the economic and human costs.

This year’s Lukas Prize finalists spotlight deeply reported books on race, war and American life. On Thursday, the Columbia Journalism School and Harvard’s Nieman Foundation named finalists in three categories.