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Both Russia and Ukraine are preparing for a protracted standoff, but Ukraine has greater incentive to try to avoid it.

Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago. And each day, another news story in America seems to bump the war off the front pages.

It has been six months since Russian forces swept into Ukraine. This is what the conflict looks like for the combatants, and to a worried continent trying to maintain solidarity.

Five months after Russian forces took over the Zaporizhzhia plant, all that stands between the world and nuclear disaster are dedicated Ukrainian operators working at gunpoint.

The threat of a meltdown looms large after several days of shelling in the area.

A senior Russian diplomat spoke openly of a possible prisoner exchange to free the American basketball star. In Ukraine, more civilians fled shelling near a Russian-held nuclear plant.

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Sometimes it’s better to be safe than first.

The new blasts came as international leaders expressed deepening concern

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine wants the war to end by 2023. Is that wishful thinking?