Paul Moss

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When it comes to the war in Ukraine, there have been plenty of grim predictions that the conflict will go on and on.

The two sides irreconcilable, Russia's demands unacceptable.

And yet it seems Donald Trump wants the whole thing over and done with by June.

According to President Zelensky, the US administration has set June as a deadline because it wants the situation sorted out well ahead of America's midterm elections in November.

Mr. Zelensky made clear the challenge of reaching a peace deal, not least that this new deadline was imposed just as Russia launched one of its most ferocious drone and missile attacks yet on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

This is a level of...

of attack that no terrorist in the world has ever allowed themselves to carry out.

And Russia must feel the response of the entire world.

Russia must demonstrate that they don't just care about striking and the war itself, but also truly about the negotiations that are currently ongoing and that they must deliver results.

But until that happens, it is of course the ordinary citizens of Ukraine who'll bear the brunt of Russia's attempt to destroy its power supply.

People like Kateryna Malofieva, a journalist living in Kyiv.