Miles Parks

Both sides are waging this very intense war, and it seems that neither will be able to keep this up indefinitely.

Ukraine certainly faces this great strain in terms of manpower.

Does it have enough people to keep on the front line, to keep fighting at this level?

The civilians in Ukraine are suffering the roughest winter yet because Russia is hitting with missiles and drones, knocking out electrical power that's getting harder and harder to restore.

Imagine yourself living on the 10th or 15th floor of an apartment building in Kiev or another city and not having an elevator, not having heat in these sub-freezing temperatures.

Russia, on the other hand, it continues to lose enormous numbers of soldiers with the way they fight on the ground.

The estimates are all around 1,000 a day, dead or wounded, 30,000 a month that they're having to replace.

And they're just not getting well-trained, well-skilled, well-supplied troops.

So it's still a very, very heavy, intense war, but very little movement with neither side gaining much territory.

So I've been trying to think about this for a long time of how do you boil this down to the basic contradictions.

And the best I can do is this.

President Trump wants a deal to end the war, stop the fighting.

He's expressed very little interest in the details of what it might look like or who would have to give up what.

He wants a deal, wants the fighting to stop.

That's his priority.

Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader...

seems to want to drag this war out.

Russia is gaining a little territory, not much, and it's a very high cost, but he seems to want to stretch this out, believing he will outlast Ukraine, the U.S., Europe, and that time is his ally and on his side.

So there's one of the main contradictions, Trump wanting to end it, Putin wanting to drag it out.

For Ukraine, the question is, how does this war end?