Three and a half years in, Russia has failed militarily, even if Ukraine is bleeding, too. Mr Putin has not even managed to overrun Kharkiv, just 35km from the border, let alone Kyiv. The flow of goods through Ukraine’s deep-sea ports surpasses pre-war volumes.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt shift on the war in Ukraine this week came amid fresh frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was intended to apply more pressure on Moscow to come to the negotiating table,

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Though Ukrainian units pushed to recapture small towns and villages near Pokrovsk, the strategic picture still favors Russia. The Russian military has been slowly but steadily seizing Ukrainian territory since the outset of its full-scale invasion campaign. In August Russia captured some 200 square miles of Ukrainian land.

A similar 59% of Ukrainians, says the Ukraine Rating Group, would accept a compromise on a de facto loss of territory, if that brought about a ceasefire. Few people believe there will be a formal peace;

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the U.N. General Assembly a day after President Trump made another shift in his stance on Russia's war in Ukraine.

It could take years and major losses for Ukraine to reclaim all the territory the Russian army has taken since 1991, according to analysts studying the war.

An expert has claimed that Melania Trump encouraged her husband, Donald, to change his stance on the Ukraine war.

Former Ukrainian military chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi has criticized Ukraine's failed cross-border offensive into Russia’s Kursk region, saying the losses were unacceptably high. "The price of these actions is unknown to me,