Russia has been steadily gaining in Ukraine but has focused its efforts on advancing in the country's eastern Donetsk region.
Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.
US securocrats pushed for expansionist policies in the 1990s that set the West and Russia on a path of confrontation.
Starmer's unannounced trip to Kyiv focuses on a new treaty guaranteeing Ukraine's security and fostering long-term defense ...