Steve Inskeep

We go now to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley, who's covering all this from Kyiv, Ukraine.

Hey there, Eleanor.

Well, what are the Ukrainians saying?

Where does this actually leave the effort for peace, Eleanor?

I'd like to find out

here, Eleanor, if there's a mistaken assumption.

The president of the United States has assumed that Russia wants to stop the killing.

He wants to.

Obviously, they must.

That leaked phone conversation by Bloomberg with Steve Witkoff contains in it an assumption that Russia wants to end this and the deal is obvious.

That's the U.S.

assumption.

Has Russia shown it actually sees it that way?

And President Eleanor Beardsley, thanks so much.

You're welcome, Steve.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters at the White House on Tuesday he did not witness the second round of strikes that killed survivors on the boat.

Lawmakers now say they want to look into what happened.

Okay, Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election for a U.S.

House seat in Tennessee.

That means the Republican edge in the House of Representatives doesn't get any narrower.