On Wednesday night, Vladimir Putin’s Russia blanketed Ukraine with missiles and drones in what was perhaps the largest-scale air attack on the country since 2022. One missile reportedly struck an apartment building in Kyiv, killing nine and wounding another 63.
This is a war zone.
Earlier in the day, the Trump administration rolled out its proposed outline for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine – a peace deal under which Ukraine would have been forced to accept Russian annexation of Crimea and control of Eastern Ukraine; been removed from NATO membership; provided little or nothing in the way of security guarantees for Ukraine; and ended sanctions on Russia.
Russia has not accepted a peace arrangement along these lines. Essentially, this proposal was the United States, Europe and Ukraine presumably negotiating against themselves. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky rejected…
